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Maybe instead of roads designed for 80, set to 60, and reduced to 40, and then speed-camera’d, they could (get this) build roads that encourage drivers to follow the limit.
On the one hand, you are right and that is the ultimate solution. On the other hand it will cost millions to redesign one road whereas the cameras cost thousands to operate. The cameras can be used as a band aid solution but when the road is due for repaving or rehabilitation, it should be redesigned.
There could be some middle ground by adding those flappy sticks to narrow the lane and make turns sharper, requiring slower speeds, at intersections until the road can be properly rehabilitated.
Unfortunately it's just too expensive to properly fix and redesign every road in the city. Even the posterchild of safe streets, The Netherlands, didn't get safe streets overnight, they did the above strategy of making streets safer when they were due to be rehabilitated.
Ya all are shortsighted as all fuck. Gimmie a jackhamem and a night per road and trust me, everyone will slow down <3 My country uses this technology through decades with great success!