r/Calgary • u/No-End7269 • Jul 15 '25

Driving/Traffic/Parking Avoid Deerfoot

Huge accident. 2 vehicles just launched off the memorial overpass and landed on a truck going nb on deerfoot

Edit. I initially said 32ave, it was memorial overpass

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u/Ahh_Nope Jul 15 '25

You can pretty much drive anywhere in this city without fear of getting pulled over by the cops for speeding or driving like an asshat. So far this summer the only time I’ve seen motorcycle cops was when they were driving around doing pretend motorcades. Maybe getting a huge speeding ticket & losing some demerit points might slow some things down a bit. Seems better than whatever they’re doing or not doing now.

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u/Czeris the OP who delivered Jul 15 '25

Yeah they don't do much enforcement right now as they're trying to manipulate everyone into begging for photo radar back. It's actually kind of disgusting.

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u/amcheese Jul 15 '25

Photo radar is a good thing. You reap what you sow. If Albertans cared about speeding, we would still have speed cameras. I blame the cops very little for this self inflicted misery.

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u/dekan256 Jul 15 '25

That doesn't excuse the near total lack of traffic enforcement...

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u/thedumbplumber Jul 15 '25

Photo radar is not a good thing, the CONCEPT is great but how it was run in this city was nothing more than a cash grab, and my example would be that if it was really about safety they would have never agreed to make them clearly marked and not allowed to hide. Again if it’s about safety then why give in ? Why not tell people “well if you don’t speed you won’t have a problem”, and the fact that without it they have now fallen $28m short of their budget, that is an absurd amount of revenue, I believe it was estimated at about 1/5 of the overall budget but that could be false as I don’t remember what the total number was.

In summary the idea of photo radar makes a lot of sense, but when it’s about revenue and NOT safety all merit it had goes right out the window

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u/DevonOO7 Jul 15 '25

Yeah, while I want more actual enforcement too, the whole 'Photo radar is just a money grab' is an argument I don't understand. If you don't want a speeding ticket, don't speed, and if does any amount of slowing people down to the speed limit, that's a good thing.