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If your goal is avoiding bad outcomes, you change the environment to avoid bad outcomes.
Even outside eliminating cars, things like sharp curbs and physically protected bike lanes save lives, especially children's lives. If the goal were saving the lives of children, you do that first. Instead, over my lifetime, I have seen these things disappearing. Literally becoming more dangerous.
I know you think you're arguing in good faith, but you are a puppet of some seriously malevolent mother fuckers who will endanger children for profit and an excuse to fuck my privacy. Yours too, if you care. Don't tolerate a hand up your ass without at least a little foreplay.
I completely agree with you and yes it's a constant struggle against drivers and politicians catering to them to get anything that's even remotely pedestrian friendly.
The other person out of curiosity did ask the reasoning behind it and i can give one, even though it's from a positive perspective which isn't that accurate for the reason why those cameras have been implement. That doesn't mean that i support it, in every response iv said how those cameras have become the worst ways to control traffic, but i can't deny the beneficial effect of traffic cameras. Those do work, with a huge cost to privacy.
I've just seen too many drivers slowing down to speed limit when a map says a traffic camera is coming up. Same on intersections, it reduces how many drivers try to slip over when it's "orange"(just turned red). Similar around police (excluding the corruption argument), people start to behave better. So imminent threat of a punishment does have a positive, even if limited, effect.