Authorizing the placement of speed monitoring systems on specified highways in Baltimore City; making specified provisions of law relating to the enforcement of speed limit laws with speed monitoring systems applicable in Baltimore City; etc.
[Note that Montgomery County already has this law.]
https://mlis.state.md.us/2009rs/billfile/sb0388.htmoldId.20090226145312157
Oh neat, more cameras monitoring our every move, civil liberties are way overrated anyway…a small price to pay for a false sense of safety I say!
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Keep in mind that 40% of Baltimore’s traffic fatalities are pedestrians and 80% of all bike/ped crashes happen on 35mph roads or less, basically the same roads that will allow speed cameras (40mph and up can’t have them.) If you want to speed and keep your civil liberties intact, stick to the 40+mph roads.
Speed cameras are better then a false sense of safety they do reduce crashes, injuries and fatalities all of which Baltimore has way too many of.
I am extremely uncomfortable with an automated camera that is set up to catch lawbreakers, in public spaces. It opens the door to all kinds of nasty things, we have had redlight cameras for probably ten years in Md, It has dome little to reduce the amount of people that run redlights(at least from my vantage point), but it is very profitable for the municipalities, so they will not be going away anytime soon.
I know someone that got a warning for jaywalking, are you kidding me? Is the city actually paying city representatives to stop people who are jaywalking, and warn them that the next time they are caught jaywalking they will be fined? You have got to be kidding me, ok, the police turn a blind eye to the groups of gentlemen that congragate around the neighborhood where I work to drink liqour and panhandle, yet we are fining people who use their judgement to cross the street when it is safe(which isn’t always when the little signal says it’s safe)
Cameras, monitoring our behavior? Seriously, I’ve lived here for 31 years, and I am leaving this town when the opportunity arises.