Cameron MacLeod1d ago

From @sjamieit.bsky.social:

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened.

This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

The data: https://open.ottawa.ca/datasets/52f34797978c44c1820b8b2d7a4ae3ed

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Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@c_9 What's the correlation with the KSI figures?
Show threadCameron MacLeod1d ago
@TimWardCam i don't have the source data so can't speak to anything else about this yet.
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@c_9 'Cos that would be the point - if removing the speed limit didn't affect the KSI figures, which is presumably what the speed limit was there for in the first place, then ... ???
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@c_9 ... and if the KSI figures *have* gone up then there's the data to drive your campaign to reinstate the speed limits.
Show threadandymor1d ago
@TimWardCam @c_9 this is about the removal speed *cameras*, the speed limits haven't changed
Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@andymor @c_9 Ah but the graphic shows that in practice they have.
Show threadandymor1d ago
@TimWardCam @c_9 no it doesn't
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@andymor @c_9 Also - "and if the KSI figures *have* gone up then there's the data to drive your campaign to reinstate the speed limits" is probably the most revealing and utterly grotesque thing I've read someone say about road violence in a long time; and I live in Ireland.

@TimWardCam @c_9

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Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE1d ago
@clickhere @andymor @c_9 That's likely to be how the transport engineers see it - the priority for spending on the roads is to reduce KSI. Councillors don't of course have to follow this advice and can spend on political projects instead.