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gbe28 t1_j7vs1gu wrote

I drive it every day and don't think I've seen any accidents near the Pepsi sign since the cameras went in there, although there have been a few elsewhere.

So I think it has definitely reduced the number of accidents, and in the AM rush traffic often slows to a crawl after Coldspring until just after the cameras. I suppose that's a reasonable tradeoff for not having the road shut down for accident clean-ups.

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DONNIENARC0 t1_j7vhrhl wrote

Yeah. The positioning of the cameras seems great because like you said, it seemed like 9/10 accidents would be at that Northern Parkway/Coldspring corridor, and people are essentially now forced to go ~55 through there. Even the assholes who want to go 90 generally can't from what I've seen because traffic slows down from everybody else dodging the cameras and they can't pass it.

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loptopandbingo t1_j7vfklw wrote

>“From what I have been told most troopers disagree with this but have no voice to help combat this practice,” the tipster wrote.

The completely made-up rule has no way of making it undone, definitely no way that the troopers could say "we're not doing this anymore and it would be the way things are now done. Nope, no way to change a procedure. Bunch of assholes.

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AccomplishedPut3610 t1_j7vdugw wrote

There have definitely been fewer major accidents that either partially or fully close down 83 since they have been installed. I feel like a couple of years ago, there was a major accident every 2 - 3 days that had 83 shutting down. It seems like these events are less frequent since the camera installations. That's just a personal observation/opinion, though. I would be interested in seeing statistical data on it.

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