{"id":241310745,"date":"2012-08-24T22:45:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241310745"},"modified":"2012-08-24T22:45:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:45:45","slug":"speed-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241310745","title":{"rendered":"Speed Cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I thought this point bears highlighting.]<br \/>\n*********************************************************<br \/>\nExcerpt by David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nWhat about lower? What would happen with a $5-10 fine? At that range, some people, especially ones with more money, might conclude that they are in a hurry and just treat it as a toll. It might be interesting to try something like this in the 1-10 mph over the limit range, which some jurisdictions (like Maryland) exclude entirely.<br \/>\nExempting slight speeding is not really good policy, as it just means every driver treats a 30 mph sign as meaning 40 mph limit, and 10 extra mph of speed makes a pedestrian about 40% more likely to die in a crash. On the other hand, many drivers have become conditioned to believe that such speeding is fine. What about charging a very small amount for such an infraction, to acclimate people to the idea that it&#8217;s both illegal and dangerous, but gently?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/15750\/what-is-the-right-level-for-speed-camera-fines\/\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/15750\/what-is-the-right-level-for-speed-camera-fines\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: I thought this point bears highlighting.] ********************************************************* Excerpt by David Alpert, Greater Greater Washington &#8230; What about lower? What would happen with a $5-10 fine? At that range, some people, especially ones with more money, might conclude that they are in a hurry and just treat it as a toll. It might be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=241310745\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speed Cameras&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241310745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241310745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241310745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241310745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241310745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241310745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241310745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}