Governor Wolf, VETO Senate Bill 172

To All Drivers:

Contact Governor Wolf [717-787-2500] and tell him to VETO Senate Bill 172, authorizing speed cameras in work zones and on Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.

Speed cameras make highways more dangerous. The problems on Roosevelt Boulevard can be fixed by: synchronizing the traffic lights to 40 or 45 MPH; putting the cross walks underground. Work Zones: Less than 1 death every two years since 1970 from passing cars does not justify speed cameras.

Speed cameras were voted in for the money they will rake in from safe drivers. Up to $30 million per year from work zone cameras alone, with no improvement in safety for the workers. The vast majority of the workers are killed by their own machinery, not passing motorists. On the Boulevard, tens of millions of dollars will be taken from safe drivers for no reason.

SB 172 is called a “pilot” program. Not true. It is the foot in the door to put speed cameras all over Pennsylvania, and cameras will be used where speed limits are posted below the safest speed to insure the cameras are profitable.

The “speeding crisis” and the “work zone crisis” do not exist. They were invented by the camera profiteers as a justification for their product, using the massive revenue cameras generate to seal the deal with the Legislature.

SB 172 has so many changes and unrelated items listed that the bill is likely illegal.
Contact Governor Wolf [717-787-2500] and tell him to VETO Senate Bill 172. Thank you.

Sincerely,
Tom McCarey Member, National Motorists Association