COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — Mobile speed safety cameras designed to protect school zones are creating unexpected traffic problems for Colorado Springs drivers, according to local residents who say poor placement is causing dangerous backups.
Justin Baker photographed one of the enforcement vehicles parked Thursday morning on Chelton Road in the middle of a traffic lane with a single orange cone for visibility. The placement, near Centennial Elementary School and a busy intersection, created significant traffic delays during the morning commute.
If only there was a vehicle that could transport multiple people at the same time, rather than every individual driving their own car. Perhaps someday scientists will figure it out.
Derpy headline. It’s cars causing the traffic backup. I know that this is a very difficult concept for many drivers to grasp, but it’s so obvious even a child in kindergarten can see it: There are traffic backups in plenty of places with no mobile speed cameras, probably even in that very Colorado Springs school zone. Yet there are no traffic backups in places with no cars.
