Tell your Rep. and Senator to vote NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 607

Drivers:

The push is on to arm Pennsylvania municipal police with RADAR guns: Speed Trap Bill SB 607.

Consider this: red light cameras were the stepping stone to speed cameras.

Red light cameras were supposed to make Roosevelt Boulevard safer. Philadelphia Police Department research found that the cameras increased accidents. [The Philadelphia Police Department doesn’t get any revenue from red light cameras.] The government’s reaction to their red light cameras failure (the cameras are a huge success at raising money: $1 million/camera/year) is to double down and put in speed cameras. Many studies show that speed cameras increase accidents. So much for camera-enforcement-for-profit efforts to make the Boulevard safer.

Consider this: RADAR is being sold as a godsend to stop all the “speeding.” People are not “speeding.” They are driving reasonable and prudent speeds to get safely from point A to point B. Yet, officials want RADAR to enforce the unsafe low limits they post: low in order to make it easy to ticket safe drivers. They want your money.

RADAR will be the stepping-stone to speed cameras on every road where the limit is set below the safe speeds people drive every day. That’s 90% of the roads you drive safely every day (FHwA data), except now you will be ticketed for your "criminal" behavior. Not for safety but to get your money.

RADAR is a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Tell your Representative and Senator to vote NO on Speed Trap Bill SB 607.

Archimedes