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submitted 11 months ago by villasv@beehaw.org to c/vancouver@lemmy.ca

Hello Vancouverites, you may have heard about an upcoming motion in Vancouver council that calls for the installation of speed and red light cameras at more of the city's high-crash intersections. On average there are 22 car crashes resulting in death/injury in the city every day. This is a public safety and public health crisis, and automated enforcement with speed and red light cameras is an effective and efficient way to make roads safer.

The motion will be considered on Wednesday, November 1st. You can help by expressing support either by emailing or speaking to council. Here's our guide for doing so: https://visionzerovancouver.ca/intersection-safety-cameras/

Thank you for taking action for safer streets. Share the page and encourage other people you know to do the same!

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[-] villasv@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

IIRC distracted driving is 4 points, which is more the 3 you get for speeding, disobeying stop sign or red light at intersection.

I don't disagree that distracted driving is a big issue, but red light cameras have been shown to decrease injury related crashes at dangerous intersections; so until we're able to redesign the intersection I think we're better off having some extra monitoring and enforcement. Mitigating one problem doesn't stop us from working on other things as well.

[-] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I'll be honest, I thought about putting a qualifier at the end about how I'm not really talking about light cams but speeding cams.

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