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'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers

 
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'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
'You're about to get a lot more speeding tickets!' Critics slam 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan to fix the nation's roads crisis with MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers


Pete Buttigieg announced a plan yesterday to make the nation's roads safer

Tucked away in his 42-page strategy is a promise to promote safety cameras

Buttigieg claimed cameras are less racially biased than cops so will patrol more fairly

But critics say it's just a Trojan horse to fine motorists more in the way of speeding tickets

They questioned why Buttigieg wasn't doing more to fix roads and bridges

Many trashed him using the hashtag Pothole Pete - a reference to when he was the Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, and the city was ravaged by potholes

'If we can't tax you to death, we'll fine you,' quipped one critic


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Buttigieg's 42-page plan includes a caveat to 'promote' speed camera use, which he says will be a more 'equitable' way of patrolling the roads than if cops were tasked with it.

He wants to create roads that will 'self-enforce' through speed limits and cameras - rather than have cops patrolling them.

But skeptics say it will only end up leading to more fines for motorists - and money for the government - while doing nothing to address the country's real transport problems.
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Re: 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
I agree with the Butt, but not with speed cameras, but lowering speeds.
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Re: 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
We have school zones in Australia

They bake it into the gps of cars


I understand it makes things safer but I just get a very uncomfortable feeling that we're stifling something important
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Re: 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
Ahh. The latest from Pete Booty-Judge.
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Re: 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan - MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
Likely he's paid off by the license plate reader manufacturers, like former DHS secretary Napolitano when she was Gov of Arizona.

It's also a huge privacy issue. Nothing like passing dozens of ALPR cameras on the Interstate to scream freedom to travel.





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