NYC bill lowering speed limits again - would be 5-20 MPH on most streets

[C3D]

After lowering speed limits to 25 in 2014, the powers that be want to lower the speed limit further for "safety". Which really means more speed camera tickets.

New law that could reduce NYC speed limits to 20 mph, 5 mph passes state Senate committee

Sammy’s Law is named after 12-year-old Samuel Cohen Eckstein, who was killed by a driver on Prospect Park West in 2013.

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[ManualF150]

So penalize the ones that follow the rules, but don't penalize the ones that jaywalk....

 

[Mosinitis]

Speed cameras, fines, revenue. This is what this is all about. Capitalism sucks ass.

 

[ManualF150]

Speed cameras, fines, revenue. This is what this is all about. Capitalism sucks ass.

I can also see this as a way to leverage and facilitate the use of public transportation too.

 

[MikeM]

Most time i wish i could go 15 mph on city streets

 

[spat]

Speed cameras, fines, revenue. This is what this is all about. Capitalism sucks ass.

As opposed to communism where the government just takes *all* the money ?

 

[Mosinitis]

As opposed to communism where the government just takes *all* the money ?

Everyone had jobs and roof over their heads. No billioners, no homeless and no rampant mental illness. No corrupt government setting up revenue traps.

 

[spat]

Everyone had jobs and roof over their heads. No billioners, no homeless and no rampant mental illness. No corrupt government setting up revenue traps.

Everyone had jobs, or they were sent to a gulag.

No homeless because everyone without a job was sent to a gulag.

Anyone who questioned the government was declared mentally ill and sent to a gulag with a "mental hospital" sign over the door.

The whole government was corrupt, by design. They didn't call it corruption because that's just how it was supposed to work.

The government didn't have revenue traps, because they already owned everything. They didn't even need to create a pretense to just take what they wanted.

 

[Mosinitis]

Everyone had jobs, or they were sent to a gulag.

No homeless because everyone without a job was sent to a gulag.

Anyone who questioned the government was declared mentally ill and sent to a gulag with a "mental hospital" sign over the door.

The whole government was corrupt, by design. They didn't call it corruption because that's just how it was supposed to work.

The government didn't have revenue traps, because they already owned everything. They didn't even need to create a pretense to just take what they wanted.

Everybody had jobs, because this was the norm. Less stress, less pitfalls, less mental illness. Many disidents actually were mentally ill. Corruption was a punishable crime, not a function of government.

Encarceration rates were lower then in the U.S.

 

[RedBreast21]

Not surprised at all. Dropping the speed limit to 20mph serves as a political win for those that named the law after a child who was killed, great election material and of course speed cameras which brings in a tremendous amount to revenue and one camera pays for itself in one month in some locations. This is the new surveillance state. The cameras and tracking devices are everywhere and have been for many years now. Just open your eyes. It has nothing to do with capitalism, communism or whatever "ism", its just humans controlling humans. That has been going on since the beginning of our time.

 

[Mosinitis]

I should have said Democracy in action.

 

[GOYABEAN]

Follow the $$$

 

[spat]

Everybody had jobs, because this was the norm. Less stress, less pitfalls, less mental illness. Many disidents actually were mentally ill. Corruption was a punishable crime, not a function of government.

Encarceration rates were lower then in the U.S.

It was the norm because you had no choice.

I have no idea how you have managed to romanticize one of the most tyrranical regimes of the last few centuries, but there it is.

Incarceration rates in the US would be lower if our prisons worked people to death instead of being country clubs too.

Next you'll be telling us how feudal serfs had it better without all the burdens of land ownership too.

 

[Hillbilly77]

Maybe they're just trying to slow down all the people that are leaving that third-world shithole.

 

[Mosinitis]

It was the norm because you had no choice.

I have no idea how you have managed to romanticize one of the most tyrranical regimes of the last few centuries, but there it is.

Incarceration rates in the US would be lower if our prisons worked people to death instead of being country clubs too.

Next you'll be telling us how feudal serfs had it better without all the burdens of land ownership too.

You keep reciting idiotic stereotypes, that's like using Great Depression, stock market crash, lynching and segregation to describe the life in America.

 

[Mosinitis]

Mental illness, homelessness, high crime and encarceration rates are not signs of good life.

 

[spat]

You keep reciting idiotic stereotypes, that's like using Great Depression, stock market crash, lynching and segregation to describe the life in America.

For millions of people for a decade, that *was* life in America.

We don't deny it was bad though, and nobody on here is saying "we should go back to that, because the billionaires got what was coming to them"

 

[Darth]

Mental illness, homelessness, high crime and encarceration rates are not signs of good life.

Execution of all those people would then be an indicator of good life?

 

[Mosinitis]

Execution of all those people would then be an indicator of good life?

Soviets executed homeless and mentally ill?

 

[Darth]

Soviets executed homeless and mentally ill?

Please stick to the question presented before moving on.

 

[Mosinitis]

Please stick to the question presented before moving on.

Follow the thread or get lost, pervert.

 

[Darth]

Follow the thread or get lost, pervert.

I like the part where you didn't answer the question.

 

[Mosinitis]

Less perverts as well, thanks for reminding.

 

[spat]

Soviets executed homeless and mentally ill?

Well, not executed per say.

Wonder how many were given good homes and jobs digging the white sea canal ?

Pity they never lived to see it completed.

And what happened to the homeless or mentally ill that *didn't* want a job like that ?

Admittedly our solution if leaving them alone to shit on the sidewalks of San Francisco is not ideal, but working them to death is probably worse.

 

[Darth]

Less perverts as well, thanks for reminding.

Oh for fuck's sake Karl Marx invented Commodity Fetishism so would you stop and answer the question already?

commodity fetishism

"commodity fetishism" published on by null.

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[Blimey]

Everyone had jobs and roof over their heads. No billioners, no homeless and no rampant mental illness. No corrupt government setting up revenue traps.

This has to be a joke.

Anyway what if I told you China is corrupt as hell and has speed cameras?

 

[Mosinitis]

Wonder how many were given good homes and jobs digging the white sea canal ?

None. Mentally ill didn't work. Vagrancy was a low level crime, similar to disorderly conduct.

 

[gun_slinger_boy]

Two posts in and we're already somehow talking about how communism is great in a post about speed limits. SMH

 

[Mosinitis]

This has to be a joke.

Anyway what if I told you China is corrupt as hell and has speed cameras?

We are talking about speed cameras and ridiculous speed limits combination.

 

[Mosinitis]

Two posts in and we're already somehow talking about how communism is great in a post about speed limits. SMH

That's nothing compared to all the blaming nonexistent communism gets in this country.