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Can anyone explain how a cop there regularly is better than a speed camera?

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[–] prodigalsorcerer@lemmy.ca 9 points 21 hours ago

How does that improve road safety

Presumably, after paying all 10 tickets, this person will never speed there again. Slightly different because it was a temporary speed limit, but hopefully this person will just remember their 10 tickets and never speed in a construction zone again.

Cameras work by existing. They don't immediately fix the issue, but after everyone's received their initial set of tickets, speeding should be way down from the "regular" drivers in the area. Manned police traps only work as long as someone is there. If there's a cop there every Monday, people speed on Tuesday-Friday. If there's a cop there very infrequently, people speed frequently and just put up with a ticket every once in a while. But what happens most of the time is that there's just never a cop there, and people speed all the time.