Automated Traffic Enforcement Struggles to Find Footing in California State Legislature

Automated Traffic Enforcement Struggles to Find Footing in California State Legislature
If Texas lawmakers hate it, California lawmakers must love it, right? Not so fast.
May 10, 2021, 11am PDT | James Brasuell |
Steve Lopez reports on the stalled efforts to increase the amount of automated traffic enforcement in California, with two state bills focusing on automated speed enforcement in school zones and in areas with high rates of collisions.
Lopez frames the political movement as a response to the worsening safety conditions on the road during the pandemic. "Nationally, there was an 8% increase in auto fatalities, with a death toll of 42,060 — and that was in a pandemic year with significant reductions in traffic," explains Lopez of the well documented trend of pandemic life, reported by Planetizen in July 2020, October 2020, and January 2021, for example.

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