metoo4 said:
These locations will be advertized by signs and it will clearly be made public. As long as it's in the open, it's still an annoyance but the money grab trickery doesn't hold water.
Well I would be willing to bet a steak dinner that every one of those cameras will have paid for themselves, signs included, and show a profit before the year is out. Just as people become "houseblind" to defects in their houses that guests readily pick up on, people will, after awhile, look straight at those signs without really seeing them. And you can bet the rent money that the signs wont have flashing lights on them.
Now it may be true that there will be some deterrence but I wonder how many people are guilty of transgressions due to quirks in their nature and may just be incorrigible or are victims of the context within their cars at that moment(i.e. fighting kids in the back seat). So that leaves us with considering two possibilities to address the issue. Which course or strategy is the most productive in dealing with human failings:
1. Smack them over the head with a fine? (That'll l'arn 'em!)
or
2. Design traffic systems of flow in the future to eliminate the issue.
Clearly there is some debate yet to be for choice number one. Choice two stands on its own merits and is foolproof. Whether it is practical or not remains to be seen but that does not take away from the issue as to how effective the cameras really are and to what extent city officials are cognizant of that fact.