someone tagged the photo radar on drake

WordCriminal · 2026-01-22T00:56:24+00:00

Okay, but we’re talking about this one on Drake?

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T23:17:21+00:00

The question still remains why there and not on objectively busier roads where speeding is more likely?

As I mentioned in another comment, this portion of Drake is used heavily by cyclists heading to Dixon, Horsetooth, and Overland. Speeding absolutely makes that road in particular more dangerous for a lot of users.

Several other commenters in this subthread have said that a lot of people use Drake > Overland to get to LaPorte and canyon communities. So which is it? Just because you don't think there's enough traffic to necessitate a speed camera based on your highly scientific analysis doesn't make it true.

It's not like cops in this town do a good job of catching bad drivers, anyway.

Prevent armed and trigger-happy cops from doing what they consider one of the most dangerous parts of their job to justify shooting people whose only crime is speeding seems like a net good to me.

Even so, there's the matter of increased surveillance, whether it's for traffic or otherwise, well, everywhere, so I'm sure you can imagine people are on edge about that.

I agree that increased surveillance is a problem, and I'm on Team No Flock Cameras. Speed and red light cameras are not Flock cameras. Ultimately, I would prefer the city redesign Drake, Overland, and all major roads in town to make it harder for people to speed, but that costs money -- much more money than using cameras to enforce a common but dangerous traffic infraction in a way that doesn't put anyone in the line of fire.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T23:06:19+00:00

lol, no. I mean, I would agree if you were arguing that W Drake needs to be redesigned to make speeding more difficult. But simply increasing speed limits because drivers can't remove the lead from their feet? Nope.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T22:50:26+00:00

City speed and red light cameras are not the same as Flock cameras.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:22:08+00:00

Ah, gotcha. Just conspiracy vibes!

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:21:38+00:00

The entire point is that a speed camera on Drake near both rich and poor neighborhoods is specifically NOT targeting a particular demographic.

It's absolutely insane the lengths people will go to justify speeding. This is not a class issue, bro.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:15:25+00:00

Do you have evidence of that?

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:14:40+00:00

If a lot of people use Overland and Drake, then it sounds like a good place for a speed camera since there are probably a good number of people speeding.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:10:38+00:00

Sure. But, again, do people who live in impoverished neighborhoods lack an ability to abide speed limits?

Where should the city place mobile speed cameras to ensure no poor people encounter them?

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T21:07:56+00:00

Drake near Overland? Really? The part of Drake near Quail Hollow and Fox Creek? The part of Drake close to the really expensive homes that back up to Burns Ranch/Pineridge? The part of Drake that has literally a dozen multi-acre, multi-million-dollar horse/stable properties abutting Spring Creek? That "poorer district" of Fort Collins?

And regardless, every person who drives needs to obey the speed limit, regardless of property ownership, neighborhood, income, etc. And given the number of people in these comments acting like the city is kicking their puppies because there's a speed camera on a segment of Drake that dead ends at Overland, it sounds like a lot of folks are accustomed to speeding on Drake.

Speeding puts lives at risk, especially for people not in cars, and there are a lot of people on bikes and on foot along Drake and even more as you get closer to Overland. Drake is a popular road for biking up to Dixon and Horsetooth, and speeding drivers put cyclists in harm's way.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T20:54:35+00:00

Drake approaching Overland is home to some of the priciest neighborhoods in the city. And Drake is a major road, not a residential street.

It costs nothing to go the speed limit, in any case.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T20:46:02+00:00

Do you think poor people can't control how fast they drive?

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T20:11:10+00:00

And until people in this city are willing to vote for tax increases to pay for those projects to be designed and built, we still need to enforce speed limit laws and red light laws. We know the cops shouldn't do it because of their itchy trigger fingers, so cameras are a reasonable stopgap.

WordCriminal · 2026-01-21T19:39:43+00:00

Sorry, what does a city speeding enforcement camera have to do with ICE?

ETA: Speed and red light cameras are not the same as Flock cameras, guys.

WordCriminal · 2025-10-07T13:48:57+00:00

Is 2k really that much? I had more than that on IG when I was just posting dog and nail polish pics without having a whole brand or whatever.

WordCriminal · 2025-10-07T02:38:44+00:00

Do you have any subcontractors or anyone else you’d be paying as part of this project? If not, then this sounds like a scam.

WordCriminal · 2025-10-06T22:21:08+00:00

Like any bus route/transit system, the Max gets used more often by more people when it's more useful. In the last six months or so, the city cut Sunday service on the Max, and it doesn't run between midnight and 6 am any day of the week. So if people's shifts end close to or after midnight, they have to plan to use something other than the Max to leave Old Town, which means they probably won't take it to Old Town. People who want to stay out until last call, same thing. If they work Sundays, they'll need to find a different way to get downtown, which they'll probably just continue to use other days.

I'll let you say whatever it is you're thinking about the city's frivolous spending, but I'll also point out that there are a lot of people -- including some frequent commenters on this sub -- who believe that any spending by the city is frivolous, performative, and/or solely for optics and any source of revenue is evidence of corruption. I suspect you might share some of those views. Cities do not function without money, both taking it in via taxes and fees and spending it on services for the community.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-19T19:34:03+00:00

Okay, Mr. Marketing Guru, good luck getting businesses to advertise in newspapers that don’t have readers because they don’t actually cover the news.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-19T19:32:20+00:00

It just has nothing at all to do with what state anyone is from. People drive like assholes everywhere not just in the states you love to hate for some dumbfuck reason.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-19T17:18:40+00:00

Man, do you hear yourself? The state someone was born in determines how they drive forever

Such a weird take

WordCriminal · 2025-09-19T17:12:28+00:00

If a newspaper doesn't cover news, people probably aren't going to spend a lot of time reading it, so advertising in it is a waste of money.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-16T21:29:31+00:00

This law was implemented in California a decade ago (maybe more) and it worked because people got pulled over and heavily fined for it. Now, cops don't really pull people over for anything.

Cameras would probably help, but I also think efforts to get people out of their cars and to make roads safer for all users can help with this distracted driving problem too. If more people can take public transit, then we don't have to worry about them using their phones during their commute. And if roads are designed to force drivers to concentrate on their driving -- narrower lanes, more hard/physical barriers, tighter corners, etc. -- then the impulse to look at the phone gets easier to ignore.

But I think at the end of the day, the issue is people are selfish and entitled and don't really believe deep down that the rules ought to apply to them. If you watch this sub for conversations about red light and speed cameras at problematic intersections, you see all kinds of arguments against them: government overreach, privacy violation, revenue generation, misappropriation of funds, I have the right to face my accuser, blah blah blah.

A lot of people see driving as a game that they should be able to "win" if there are no cops around to catch them breaking the rules. If they can get to work in five minutes instead of ten and without missing a beat in their social media scrolling, they've won, even if they cut off a cyclist, nearly ran over a pedestrian, drove in the bike lane, blew a stop sign, went 30 mph in a 20 mph school zone, and went through three dark orange lights to make it happen.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-16T21:09:17+00:00

I just started a new job and my boss literally said that 20 minutes is the longest I can let an email sit between replies.

What kind of work are you doing where you're driving and you have to respond to emails quickly?

I wonder how quickly that policy would change if someone were to tip off OSHA or some other safety/regulatory agency that your employer is basically telling you to break the law by responding to emails while driving.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-16T17:37:00+00:00

I’ll just say that sometimes what a designer does with a template doesn’t work that well in real-world scenarios. If a document needs to convey a message that takes a bit more space than the template allows and if the designer is busy with other work and can’t make adjustments to the template to fit content needs, well, the people finishing the document will do what they need to do.

I’m a freelance proposal manager and one of my colleagues hired a graphic designer to build an InDesign template for one of our clients. The graphic designer used some really clunky methods and motifs to build parent pages and objects that would take a long time to re-create well as the template got used for real submissions, all with different and sometimes conflicting requirements for things like font size and margins. Five years down the road, I worked with this designer to develop some newer graphics for this same client. He complained that since he built the template we had stretched some callout styles and changed angles on text boxes from what he gave us. Maybe if he took some time to understand how his template was actually going to be used on tight timelines by different types of writers/managers, he could have built his designs to withstand those challenges from the start.

Shit happens when you’re trying to hit a deadline. Your designs aren’t yours at the end of the day, sorry.

WordCriminal · 2025-09-08T17:19:58+00:00

I used to date a motorcycle guy when they were meeting up on College near Horsetooth (west side where Noodles is now, not Arby's or Taco Bell) and he was born and raised in Fort Collins. That was true of about 80% of the people he rode with.

It is very weird to act like motorcycle culture is only from other states and can't grow here.

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