Yes!! I know people just get downvoted complaining about the cameras ("well you were going over the speed limit so you got what you deserved!") but I drove through a school zone during the school day a few weeks back, guess I've never driven there since the cameras were installed. Was going to a temp job. I went back home during the day to take out my dog, and drove back. I realized later I the bright lights I saw must've been me getting a ticket - both times I went there. I was going 27mph when I looked the second time.

I realized later the speed limit sign was on the pole just as you turn, but realistically no one would look up and to the right while turning right onto a street, but I'm sure the judge you'd contest with wouldn't care. The sign is not posted in an easily viewable location except for folks already on the road driving straight.

Got up early, spent half the day at this job, and in the end I'll pay more than I made. I really disagree with folks who think it's a perfectly reasonable situation. We can be comfortable preaching about driving in a neighborhood where we know every side street and one-way, but I guarantee if you traveled to another city where you got multiple $50 tickets driving 27mph on a wide road with no traffic and no pedestrians, the sanctimonious displays would get toned down.

It also drives me crazy that Providence enjoys its liberal reputation but we charge a software engineer and a house cleaner a wildly different percentage of daily income for driving 25mph (or whatever the threshold is) or crossing a red light line 0.1 seconds late. We can have safety without usury, and Providence continues to do a somewhat poor job (admittedly, the city is diverse even in its safety measures across neighborhoods, and I'm speaking about the areas I know).

So that got me thinking about a comparable situation. Ideally we want safety for citizens, pedestrians, and drivers. I live near an actual dangerous intersection, and over the years probably witnessed a couple hundred thousand dollars worth of auto damage to unsuspecting drivers outside, quite a few injuries, and some property damage to houses, too. I've been lucky to not have seen a death yet, but one will certainly happen here with time. Notified City Council, written repeatedly, but they've done nothing to make the intersection safer. I'm confident in saying more people have been injured here than in front of any of the schools before they had cameras. Safety is not the true priority.