Some months ago, I noticed a police officer in Peninsula where the speed limit goes from 35-mph to 25-mph. Four minutes later, I was on State Route 303 East doing 50 in a 50-mph zone, when a white work truck with green lettering broke out from behind, on a double yellow, and passed both the car behind me and me, doing at least 80-mph uphill. Oncoming traffic was forced to move to the shoulder to avoid a head-on collision. The truck had green lettering, like MetroParks trucks, but it was going too fast, and I was too busy trying to stay alive, to positively identify it.
It was one of the scariest things I’ve ever experienced.
This is one example of how speed cameras not only don’t increase safety, they threaten it, by focusing on low-hanging fruit in the “in-between” residential speed zones, rather than actual public menaces like that truck…