'You're about to get a lot more speeding tickets!' Critics slam 'Pothole Pete' Buttigieg's plan to fix the nation's roads crisis with MORE speed cameras and lower speed limits that will guarantee fines for drivers
Buttigieg announced the plan yesterday and claims it will reduce the number of deadly road collisions. In his plan is a promise to both lower speed limits and add more speed cameras to the roads.
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The highway plan is receiving some $17billion from Biden's $1.2trillion infrastructure bill, which will be used in part to pay for the cameras.
Buttigieg's 42-page plan includes a caveat to 'promote' speed camera use, which he says will be a more 'equitable' way of patrolling the roads than if cops were tasked with it.
He wants to create roads that will 'self-enforce' through speed limits and cameras - rather than have cops patrolling them.
But skeptics say it will only end up leading to more fines for motorists - and money for the government - while doing nothing to address the country's real transport problems.
They are demanding to know why Buttigieg - nicknamed 'Pothole Pete' because of the pothole crisis that unfolded in South Bend, Indiana, when he was the Mayor - isn't doing more to improve things like bridge stability, traffic flow or conditions on crumbling roads and highways.
'43% of all public roadways in this country are "in poor or mediocre condition."
'In other words, we actually are Mexico, though a lot richer.
'Pete Buttigieg has a plan. Here it is: More speed cameras.