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[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The Ottawa Protocol

90 kph

Speed camera

50 kph

Past speed camera

90 kph

[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

While not ideal, this can still be useful. In Sweden, we employ speed cameras strategically around areas of higher risk, such as intersections with cars coming onto a larger road with an obscured view. Reducing the speed in that particular spot does probably save lives.

Still, adjusting the design speed is the preferable alternative, but that does not make speed cameras completely ineffective.

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nobody drives 90 in Ottawa. Especially not on the 417.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh they have speed cameras on the 417?

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

No, and they really don't need them. Ottawans merge somewhere between 60 and 80, and drive more slowly in general. In most Ontario cities, driving at 100 in the left lane will get you run over. In Ottawa, you will be passing everyone.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

We're talking about speed cameras, that's my point, why the hell would you assume I was talking about the 417.

Ever driven on walkley road?

[–] Grabthar@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Maybe take it down about 20 percent there, friend. You commented that Ottawa drivers speed up to 90 between speed cameras. I replied, a bit tongue in cheek, that Ottawa drivers don't drive 90, not even on the 417, where they're supposed to. Ottawa is the only city I have driven in where significant numbers of people drive at or below the speed limit, even when traffic would permit them to go faster, and that was the case even before the speed cameras. That generally forces everyone else to be honest enough, but I concur, Ottawans definitely hammer the brakes down even harder right before a speed camera. Or while merging on the 417.