Then we’ll look forward to seeing you at our January meeting where we’ll present more of the data.

No, but the consequences tend to be a lot more severe if an accident occurs.

The article did state that they were going for name-brand (e.g., Land o' Lakes Butter) specifically. I'd love to see another store-brand vs store-brand comparison list.

Are you implying cyclists and scooter users break traffic laws at higher rates than motorists?

I’m on board for better road design. Don’t see how police watching for traffic violations is any less dystopian than cameras though

Thank you so much! Please let them know all the work they did across Fed Hill is garbage, and they need to come back and repave everything. Btw, it's awesome you're active on here. It's easy to feel like the Baltimore City government doesn't care about anyone, this gives me some hope.

Have police enforce traffic laws? Design better roadways that discourage speeding with physical impediments and speed focused design instead of cameras?

I mean people that intentionally run red lights will happily ignore tickets assuming their tags are even associated with them or their residence to be able to send the tickets.

We are! We hold them to task if they don’t do a good job.

Bad takes 101

You can ride the scooter up the one way going the direction you want to go?

The problem with bikes and scooters is they try to enjoy the privileges of pedestrians while ignoring the fact that they have to obey traffic laws too.

Baltimore City does not boot for 3 or more unpaid speed or red light camera citations because they lack state authority to do so for anything but parking tickets and these are technically moving violations.

And the state will indeed let you renew your registration without paying automated enforcement tickets.

We also lack reciprocity with neighboring jurisdictions, so people are illegally titling vehicles in Virginia and just doing whatever they want.

Thanks! I’ll double check next time. I don’t recall seeing that.

Probably because the stat about effectiveness was at the bottom and the title was "we're testing," not "here are the results of our test." I'm saying it's difficult to enforce because I see people ditch these things in the street a lot. Yes, I'm one of those "evil motorists" this sub seems to hate, but I dislike these things because a) they're hard to see at night b) they get ditched in the roadways and driveways and c) they care about as much for traffic laws as cyclists do (e.g., blowing through reds). Corralling them is great, if you can get people to do it.

I'd be more interested in the stats for the "non-hub" areas.

how did the no parking zones work? were they enforced? were there signs?

False, ftr, on the first sentence.

There is a tollway near Austin that is 85.

Montana also has no day time speed limit

it's a problem of a really useful mode of transportation but the city infrastructure being totally car dominant. want to guess how much of the Amsterdam sidewalk/street infrastructure is set aside for bikes? one of, if not THE, world bike mecca is 7% dedicated bike infrastructure. 7%. people ride scooters the wrong way up the street because there is nowhere to ride them properly.

A private company also takes a majority of the money.

Yeah, I don't trust this system. I've gotten them before for skidding two feet over the line in the rain.

how spaced out are the corrals? scooters and bikes are the greenest, fastest, and all-around best mode of transportation within a city. I think people and the DOT over-react to minor violations while ignoring many other sidewalk issues. I have never seen a person on a wheelchair riding down the sidewalk next to the maryland ave bike lane; they ALWAYS ride in the bike lane because the sidewalks are not very passable just from trees, broken concrete, etc.. as a cyclist, I think that's great that we can have better bike infrastructure AND help handicapped folks get around easier.

if you really want to make the city more friendly to people with disabilities, build more bike lanes and subsidize scooter/bike rentals so everything isn't so car-dominant and pedestrian/ADA/cyclist unfriendly.

Because they are bullshit. They get people for not running the light.

You're commenting good luck enforcing this on a post about effective data-backed enforcement. Kinda weak.

By the way, companies will and do ban riders for repeated parking offenses.

If it prevents a single accident, or reinforces an environment of accountability, it would be worth it imo

>Poor infrastructure design leads to rulebreaking. Being forced to stop and wait at a red light while there is no cross-traffic is a failure of infrastructure design. Every ticket written for running a red light is a failure of infrastructure design. A driver wouldn't
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>be able to run a red light if a light only turned red to permit cross-traffic.

I disagree. first, as I noted above, Manhattan has constant cross traffic but people violate the red lights constantly. second, I'm pretty confident that people will try to squeeze through a light that just turned red regardless of whether there was cross traffic (as OP points out, having to not proceed on their green light because there are people in the intersection running the red). the infrastructure could maybe help some, but the cases where people pull up to the light, there is no cross traffic at all, then drive through the red are not the problem cases (most of the time). the problem cases are people flying through red lights after the other direction turned green and wants to go, or as happens at an intersection near me, people go when it turns green and get t-boned or clipped by people thinking they can make it because it just turned red and most of the time the traffic that has the green will wait for them. that kind of accident isn't solved by the timing of the lights, it's solved by behavioral correction.

What kind of shorts and why shorts over top

> I hate to say it because I've talked about the lack of enforcement of traffic laws and vehicle codes here for years (and I maintain that photo enforcement is not a solution), but this city's infrastructure passively encourages bad behavior.

This is exactly it. Enforcement doesn't solve the problems caused by bad design. We shouldn't need to write tickets for running a red light, because the light should only be red when there's opposing traffic preventing you from going anyway. We shouldn't need to write tickets for speeding, because the street should be designed such that you feel uncomfortable driving any faster than the posted speed limit. With well-designed infrastructure, we'd only need to rely on enforcement for the most egregious of violations.