Ald. Daniel La Spata persuaded the City Council's Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety he chairs to let Chicagoans use their cellphones to provide the city with recorded evidence of bus, bike lane and crosswalk parking violations.
What cities really need to do is use this for driver behavior around cyclists. Drivers have to maintain safe passing distances, but they often don’t. And drivers often drive incredibly aggressively, sometimes deliberately driving cyclists off the road. Cyclists should be able to wear cameras and issue tickets to drivers that violate the law. They should get a portion of the ticket revenue for their trouble.
Yeah, I would extend that to basically any vehicle-based crimes. It’s crazy how often people in cars blatantly break laws in dangerous ways, and the only thing preventing death is pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers keeping their heads on swivels.
If a private corporation can take a picture of your license plate and send an automated ticket for speeding, why can’t I submit dashcam footage of a car blowing through a stop sign in a residential neighborhood.
If i can report a truck driver for weaving through traffic to the DOT, why can’t I report a Nissan altima?
I wouldn’t even care if it was like a lower-level offense compared to being ticketed by a driver.
City Council’s Committee on Pedestrian and Traffic Safety on Monday approved a newly revised ordinance that would authorize Chicagoans to use their cellphones to provide recorded evidence of bus, bike lane and crosswalk parking violations.
The local businesses don’t like it, but life sucks so meh.
Yeah, except I would make this independent of the police entirely. Let the cyclists sue the drivers even. Police generally don’t consider cyclists to be human. They don’t charge drivers when they kill cyclists, as cops are all fat and lazy and could never dream of cycling on a city street themselves. They consider drivers humans like themselves and cyclists disgusting poors worthy of violence.
You have to cut police completely out of the loop. They simply do not regard cyclists as human beings. This is just going to end up with a bunch of photos and videos sent to the cops, and the cops stating they simply can’t do anything about it, because reasons. The same thing happens when a non-rich person sends cops video of their robbery from their home cameras. Cops only care about oppressing minorities and cracking skulls at protests. That’s why people become police officers in the first place. Good people don’t become cops.
What cities really need to do is use this for driver behavior around cyclists. Drivers have to maintain safe passing distances, but they often don’t. And drivers often drive incredibly aggressively, sometimes deliberately driving cyclists off the road. Cyclists should be able to wear cameras and issue tickets to drivers that violate the law. They should get a portion of the ticket revenue for their trouble.
Yeah, I would extend that to basically any vehicle-based crimes. It’s crazy how often people in cars blatantly break laws in dangerous ways, and the only thing preventing death is pedestrians, cyclists, and other drivers keeping their heads on swivels.
If a private corporation can take a picture of your license plate and send an automated ticket for speeding, why can’t I submit dashcam footage of a car blowing through a stop sign in a residential neighborhood.
If i can report a truck driver for weaving through traffic to the DOT, why can’t I report a Nissan altima?
I wouldn’t even care if it was like a lower-level offense compared to being ticketed by a driver.
It can be.
The local businesses don’t like it, but life sucks so meh.
Yeah, except I would make this independent of the police entirely. Let the cyclists sue the drivers even. Police generally don’t consider cyclists to be human. They don’t charge drivers when they kill cyclists, as cops are all fat and lazy and could never dream of cycling on a city street themselves. They consider drivers humans like themselves and cyclists disgusting poors worthy of violence.
You have to cut police completely out of the loop. They simply do not regard cyclists as human beings. This is just going to end up with a bunch of photos and videos sent to the cops, and the cops stating they simply can’t do anything about it, because reasons. The same thing happens when a non-rich person sends cops video of their robbery from their home cameras. Cops only care about oppressing minorities and cracking skulls at protests. That’s why people become police officers in the first place. Good people don’t become cops.