DL Open Thread Monday Jan 17th 2021
Another very successful weekend of me avoiding all “news” is in the books. I have no earthly idea what may have happened over the last 48 hours but I can guess that “0MG! InFLaTI0N!!” “Dems in Disarray and “Biden Presidency in Deep Trouble” stories loomed large.
Fortunately none of that stuff has any real world impact. It is all just a jolly game for DC cocktail circuit regulars. So what is on your radar? While you ponder that question here are some is one “Delaware” headline of note per the google news algorithms.
Somebody was shot by a passing car in Hartly.
ADT hiker Briana DeSanctis, who set off from Cape Henlopen on Jan 1st passed through DC and is now walking up the C&O canal where she will leave roads behind for a while and be hiking through state parks and on actual trails as she crosses the Appalachian mountains.
Dude, Vance was in Delaware, Ohio.
lol
I used to fool my elementary school friends with this presidential trivia:
Who was the only president who was born in Delaware?
Rutherford B. Hayes.
You can look it up.
https://www.wdel.com/news/delawares-i-95-speed-enforcement-cameras-vandalized/article_40091202-778d-11ec-8498-d73fa0adf528.html
Glad to see some direct action taken; this person/group of people is my hero.
Stop using the interstate as a local commuter road, then the cameras won’t bother you.
Do you tell young men of color not to wear hoodies so that the cops won’t bother them? Nothing to hide/nothing to fear?
Typical weak-kneed dems, when someone finally draws a line in the sand they run for cover.
Local traffic shouldn’t use the “interstate” is the kind of thing that sounds ok philosophically, but in the real world I don’t know of any stretch of 95 that isn’t used by locals.
We collected tolls at local exits until 1976. I’m in favor of doing that again. Then we wouldn’t have to go through the paroxysm of widening and repaving 1-95 through Wilmington every few years.
Clayface….
Did you just compare speeders to young black men being shot at by cops? Typical self-obcessed whatever you are. Get off of cross dude, we need the wood.
Speed limits are in place. Deal with it. Sounds like you’d rather have more traffic stops and chances for cops to kill people (see? I can play the dumb sensationalism game too)
Puck made a bad argument. His line of reasoning is the “nothing to hide/nothing to fear” garbage that is wielded by fascists and their sympathizers everywhere.
I proposed clear alternatives that would actually create a safer work zone. Read the whole thread next time
Lol. Ok puck. I’ll drive through Elsmere then. Totally no over the top traffic enforcement there.
I hate the cameras, too. But I want to see the workers on that project able to work safely.
To me, this is different than all those cameras that Gerald Brady had put up around Wilmington just to send out tickets to unsuspecting motorists.
If they want safety, close 95 for the duration of the project or install traffic calming measures like temporary speed bumps. Cameras don’t prevent accidents; they are just revenue collection devices. You are kidding yourself if you think that money generated will be permanently earmarked for transit and safety improvements
From time to time, we’ve had those signs that tell you how fast you’re going on Harvey Road, which cuts through our community.
I can tell you it slows cars down. I think the presence of the cameras could do the same.
We get it. You love to vroom vroom.
Actually suggesting closing down 95 is classist and shows you probably aren’t from these parts, pard’ner
The existence of interstate 95 through Wilmington is inherently classist.
I’m actually very disappointed that the overall sentiment at DL is pro-surveillance. The long term strategy to dismantling the police state is to deny them the infrastructure that allows them to work effectively/generate revenue. Just because some of the side effects (questionable improvement in worker safety) are desirable doesn’t mean the methods are justifiable.
You’re painting with a too-broad brush. We were against Gerald Brady’s traffic camera fetish from the beginning, and I enjoyed when it came crashing down.
So, to put it mildly, I’m not pro-surveillance. But ‘questionable improvement in worker safety’ is disingenuous. It WILL slow vehicles down.
As to I-95 being ‘classist’, especially as it divides Wilmington, that battle happened I don’t know HOW many decades ago, and I don’t recall it being a battle at all.
I would welcome ideas as to how to mitigate the impact on Wilmington that I-95 has occasioned, but that’s not the issue here.
Speed limits are public safety measures. Driving like an asshole around construction workers can kill them… something law enforcement should be involved in.
BTW, there is absolutely nothing that speed cameras are telling the government that your phone doesn’t already tell them.
Do the police actually prevent crime? I don’t think so.
I reiterate: if the concern is worker safety, close 95. The work would move faster anyway. Cameras don’t create a physical impediment, and are only effective AFTER someone had engaged in an unsafe activity. Do cameras work as a threat? Maybe to reasonable people, but not to the drunk/drowsy driver.