Speed cameras are the ‘nuisance’ that saves lives

Before anyone flipped the switch to activate the new speed cameras on the Jones Falls Expressway (Interstate 83) in Baltimore last Thursday, there was a veritable traffic jam of critics on social media with a thumb’s down assessment of the situation. The responses ranged from the pointed but polite like an eye-roll emoji with the comment, “speeders are a top priority in Baltimore” to the even more sarcastic suggestion that the next step for Baltimore may be to imprison too-fast electric scooters. “Baltimore is so greedy with those speed cameras,” lamented one woman on Twitter last week.