[DrCaleb]

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Alberta bans photo radar on Edmonton, Calgary ring roads

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Over the next year, the province will allow Calgary and Edmonton to select high-risk areas such as school, playground and construction zones to redeploy the photo radar sites. Calgary's ring road has eight photo radar sites and Edmonton's ring road has 22.

Some photo radar is being used to generate revenue, not to improve safety, Dreeshen said.

Given enough time, I will eventually agree with the UCP. Photo radar on underpasses does nothing to change people's habits with respect to speeding, whereas I see people flying (like 70!) in the 40 zone outside my home, approaching the 30 playground zone on the next block. Crossing the street while walking the dog is an adventure in stoicism.

Yeah, I have to disagree. It's not safe for police officers to step into traffic going 110 km/h (soon to be 130 km/h) to hand out speeding tickets. Plus, a police officer can maybe issue five or six tickets an hour, while a photo radar unit can catch pretty much every speeder passing by.

And if you are wealthy, you can speed all day. (I see these people!) If a you get demerits on your license, you will eventually lose your license.

And cops do sign up for a job they know is dangerous. I don't know about Calgary, but the Henday has large shoulders and cars are supposed to slow down to 60 when passing emergency vehicles. And one cop pulling over one vehicle can be seen by hundreds of other vehicles, one truck on an underpass is seen by no one.

And it was the UCP who quashed that all lanes need to slow down to 60, so

[DrCaleb]

Danielle Smith to invoke Sovereignty Act on Ottawa power rules Monday

In case anyone here voted for her, now you know who she is actually working for.

And it's not you.

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DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Given enough time, I will eventually agree with the UCP. Photo radar on underpasses does nothing to change people's habits with respect to speeding, whereas I see people flying (like 70!) in the 40 zone outside my home, approaching the 30 playground zone on the next block. Crossing the street while walking the dog is an adventure in stoicism.

Yeah, I have to disagree. It's not safe for police officers to step into traffic going 110 km/h (soon to be 130 km/h) to hand out speeding tickets. Plus, a police officer can maybe issue five or six tickets an hour, while a photo radar unit can catch pretty much every speeder passing by.

And if you are wealthy, you can speed all day. (I see these people!) If a you get demerits on your license, you will eventually lose your license.

And cops do sign up for a job they know is dangerous. I don't know about Calgary, but the Henday has large shoulders and cars are supposed to slow down to 60 when passing emergency vehicles. And one cop pulling over one vehicle can be seen by hundreds of other vehicles, one truck on an underpass is seen by no one.

And it was the UCP who quashed that all lanes need to slow down to 60, so

People should be able to see the photo radar exactly the same way they see a cop stopped on the side of the road, especially now that the trucks are bright yellow and have a 15 foot flag on them. If drivers don't see them, then it's their own fault.

The problem I see it is that a cop can only pull over five or six people per hour. So to catch as many speeders as these 'fishing holes', police forces are going to need to hire hundreds more officers for traffic enforcement duty (which will lead to higher taxes). Or I suppose they could re-deploy vice or homicide detectives to pull over speeders. Neither is an attractive option in my opinion, and a way for the UCP to knock progressive city councils down a peg or two.

Sure cops sign up for a job that is dangerous, but that doesn't mean we need to increase that risk by flooding our roads and highways with more traffic cops.

The reality is that if you don't like photo radar tickets, then just don't speed, it's really that simple.

[DrCaleb]

I don't speed, so I don't get photo radar tickets. But I see many others speeding, so photo radar isn't deterring them at all. Today, I even saw a person flying through a school zone, with photo radar running, but the radar was perpendicular to the speeder who didn't stop at a 4 way stop sign.

Zero fucks given.

[Scape]

Really enjoying the 'about that' series.

[DrCaleb]

Yea, Andrew is knocking out of the park there.

[DrCaleb]

Alberta vows to fight new federal methane target, while oilpatch says 75 per cent cut is 'achievable'

[herbie]

Let's wait and see if Alberta can keep those emissions solely in Alberta. Otherwise the obstinate bitch will lose the Court case.

[DrCaleb]

She won't file any court case. The 'Sovereignty Act' is just theatre.

She's showboating for her increasingly fewer followers.

[DrCaleb]

Alberta pension plan flyers being sent back to the premier's office: internal reports

[Strutz]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

Alberta pension plan flyers being sent back to the premier's office: internal reports

That's awesome that some people went through this effort to make their point.

[DrCaleb]

There was an amendment in the legislature for the government to abide by any decision that comes out off thr CPP referendum, and smith refused to pass it.

[DrCaleb]

Alberta Health Services exec says he resigned over political interference from Danielle Smith’s office

[DrCaleb]

Dismissal of Dr. Deena Hinshaw from Indigenous health team prompted Alberta ethics investigation

[DrCaleb]

If the 'ethics' office could do anything important, it would have never been created.