NYC Mayor Wants Traffic Camera On Every Corner

Mr_Blank writes "New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has made it clear that he wants to see more traffic light cameras in the Big Apple, saying that he'd have the devices on every street corner if possible. According to The New York Daily News, the city brought in $52 million in fines generated by red light cameras last year alone. Bloomberg doesn't just want a jump in the number of cameras, however. He also wants to publish the names of those who blow through the stop lights in local papers to help shame wrongdoers into changing their ways. What's more, the mayor wants to look into the possibility of adding speed cameras to the mix. Big brother is coming to NYC."

Comments

And I want a camera following him everywhere

[erroneus]

If he wants to be able to track everyone, then I suppose he wouldn't have a problem with the public knowing what he is doing at all times either right?

Re:I think a better question

[spazdor]

To me, the idea of employing single-person vehicles in such a busy, people-dense environment seems sort of like using TCP/IP encapsulation to send data between a CPU core and its L1 cache. Too much overhead.

Yes, that was a car concept expressed as a computer metaphor. In Soviet Russia, dot slashes YOU!

Re:why not...

[Kreigaffe]

The cop stops you, immediately, thus ending the unsafe situation on the road.

Remember, traffic enforcement is about the safety of the public, not revenue generation.

traffic lights cannot resolve an unsafe situation. at best, they'll stop it roughly 2 weeks after it's happened.

if traffic tickets were, in fact, simply a form of revenue generation and not intended to be rules by which the roads may be made safer for all using them?
well by golly, if that were the case, it sure would be a good idea to use traffic cameras! same revenue stream as an officer, less overhead!

of course, we all know traffic tickets really ARE about revenue generation, but if they were to admit that the public would be on their ass to reform the system -- and so long as they're keeping up the charade that it's all about keeping us safe, traffic cameras should absolutely be disallowed from ticketing anybody for anything, ever.