In New York City, parking & camera violations are public.

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Jesus. Most of these are for speeding in a school zone, which in some states or cities might not be that big of a deal, but in NYC where most people are walking… WTF?

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    3 hours ago

    The school zone violations are the easiest to get but also the easiest to avoid. Usually 15-20 mph. Citywide speed limit 25; speed cameras start sending tickets if you go above like 32. Honestly surprising that Cuomo drives. Seems like a chauffeur driven guy to me.

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      28 minutes ago

      The problem is his time is worth a lot more than those fines to him.

      US Speeding fines are actually significantly lower than fines in Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Australia or Asia.

      Contrarily to a common myth, US cities/states don’t finance themselves with speeding fines. It’s a tiny drop in the bucket. New York cameras issued $23,5 million in tickets. The annual budget of New York City is $115 billion dollars.

      One of the thing you notice on US social media is that several american men (it’s always men!!) call major US cities crime-ridden democratic shitholes. They want harsh punishments for lawbreakers. Cops beat up someone? “He probably deserved it. Respect the law!!” they will say.

      These same accounts keep denouncing tickets and speed cameras. They clearly don’t see breaking the law as a bad thing. Some even cheer attacks on cameras (destruction of public property). It’s actually insane these “law and order” folks don’t notice the hypocrisy.

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    3 hours ago

    Why does he hate the Bronx so much? He gets tickets in the other boroughs that have lots of Democrats… Or does he know how to “fix” these in the Bronx?

    (I know why he doesn’t go to Staten Island, they all hate him there)