This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Mayor Is Your Judge.

Re:This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Ma... by Symbiote on Thursday November 23, 2023 @04:51AM (#38391121)

There's also a "Speed limit 50 ahead" warning sign further back up the road.

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.3778051,-92.9108282,3a,75y,2...

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Re:This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Ma... by danielfoster on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:08AM (#38391228)

Then it is very clear. I am a major fan of ProPublica, but I feel like they were too biased here and were trying too hard to write a good story.

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Re:This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Ma... by pas on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:26AM (#38392493)

straight road, no reason to go suddenly slower, the sign is completely irrelevant. drivers are not robots, if they get a good reason to slow down, they will. (eg. Waze telling them a speedtrap or patrol car is there ... or some actual traffic reason.)

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Re:This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Ma... by Symbiote on Thursday November 23, 2023 @10:13AM (#38393571)

There is a village ahead, that's plenty of reason to slow down.

The two pairs of signs are another reason.

The end of the divided highway is further reason.

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Re:This Louisiana Town Runs Largely on Traffic Fines. The Ma... by pas on Thursday November 23, 2023 @02:49PM (#38396755)

sparse traffic, flat terrain, good visibility, right of way ... all things that incentivize drivers to not take the signs seriously.

and as the article clearly shows, they don't.

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