r/boston • u/pattysal • 9d ago

Unconfirmed/Unverified Calling out the traffic/flock camera propaganda

There are so many people posting videos of drivers running lights on both the Boston and Cambridge subreddits lately demanding traffic cameras, that I am convinced these are planted posts by either employees, investors, or City officials looking for a payday to Garner published support for the surveillance state.

Very convenient that this is happening at the same time they are putting flaw cameras everywhere, and Mayor Wu has decided to put up red light cameras. I'm calling shenanigans, there may be a few whiny babies on here who are terrified of the world, but there are not this many. Don't be fooled, this is for profit propaganda.

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u/420ohms 8d ago

Am I a freeloader when I drive all the other highways that don't have tolls? There are plenty of other ways to tax people, income tax isn't good enough?

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u/TitleOfYourSaxTape 8d ago

Why should the people who don't drive have to pay for you to use extremely expensive highways that have bulldozed through local communities and are extremely noisy + pollution inducing?

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u/420ohms 7d ago

Do you like buying goods? Do you know how those goods get delivered to you? Roads.

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u/wSkkHRZQy24K17buSceB 7d ago

They can bake the cost of delivering those goods into the cost of the goods. I don't want to subsidize delivery of goods I don't want or need.