Public Comments for: HB1032 - Photo speed monitoring device; establishes a default process for collection of civil penalties.
Last Name: Mackaness Locality: Schweizersberg

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Last Name: Chubinidze Locality: Fairfax county

Hello!My name is Natela and I been struggling for so long finding affordable housing in Fairfax County,Virginia.I am 58 years old female who have a very low income.I contacted more then 500 places trying to find one bedroom apartment or private basement and all this places asking for income 3-3.5 times bigger then cost of apartment.Making any person who is trying to rent one bedroom apartment in Fairfax county need to make around 5-6000 dollars per month.How many percent of people having this high salary jobs?I DON’T. I’m making now 12.00 dollars per hour.This amount of money disqualified me from any housing I applied.My question to HUD and all other housing authorities WHAT ARE YOU SUGGESTING PEOPLE WITH LOW INCOME??????? WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO SURVIVE LIVING IN FAIRFAX AREA?HOUSING PRICES IS ASTRONOMICAL!GROCERY PRICES IS ASTRONOMICAL! ALL AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS ARE CLOSED.ALL WAITING LISTS FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING CLOSED TO. I BET YOU ALL JUST DON’T CARE ABOUT US!

Last Name: Giordano Locality: County of Clarke, Berryville, VA

Our rural green county is plagued with high speed commuter traffic between DC and Winchester VA daily. Rte 7 is designated at 55 mph and this traffic speed is typically 70-85 mph from 6 am to 9:30 am and again from 3 pm to 7 pm daily. Our rural roads have no stop lights and we suffer accidents DAILY, many of which are fatal. My husband survived a direct rearend hit of 70 mph by an underinsured woman texting on her way to work, as he was in the left turnaround lane to go to work. 3 concussions and shoulder knee injuries are still an issue for him7 years later. His medical reflect the consequences. He is just one of many. I have suggested speed cameras with fines to slow down the high speed traffic and was told it was not possible 6 years ago. I am so grateful that it IS now possible and support the use of the new technology to save lives. Please pass these life saving bills. Thank you.

Last Name: Breeding Locality: Dunn Loring

I am a resident of Dunn Loring and oppose any and all efforts to establish or place speed cameras outside of school zones. These cameras do nothing to stop speeders, and are almost exclusively used to impose onerous fines on those that cannot afford them. Similarly, towns setting speed limits below 25mph has been historically used as a tool to selectively enforce rules with the effect of disproportionately affecting minorities. If speed is an issue, road design is the solution. Narrower lanes, hard bike lanes, and more traffic lights are the solution, not a money grab by way of automated fines administered by a third party in the private sector. I am an active voter and will actively oppose anyone voting for regulations that allow for automated traffic enforcement.

Last Name: Filling Organization: Speed Ticket Camera Support to Assist Police with Speeding on Route 17 Locality: The Plains

Speed Ticket Camera's: DO NOT get sick from COVID or other diseases. Always ready to do the job to enforce speed limits. DO NOT Abandon their post, or look for work elsewhere for higher paying salaries. DO NOT get injured on the job, or harmed by a violent driver in the car. Are NOT Prejudice regarding race or gender, and DO NOT show favoritism of social-economic status or business relations. Do the job 24 hours a day if programmed that way, 365 days a year. Function day and night, in any weather. Proven data from other states that speeding reduces quickly over time. Free up Law Enforcement to focus on other speeding locations where cameras are not present. Free up Law Enforcement to engage in many other society problems and responsibilities. What Speed Ticket Camera's Cannot Do that Police Can Do: Just about everything else that is criminal behavior and to protect and serve communities. Police will always have jobs to do because we have alot of problems in society and Fauquier County. Police forces are struggling since COVID 2020 to refill positions as are just about any business is these days. Data from VDOT, Sheriff and State Police show speed citations dropped around covid because there were less police to address the speeding problems, but VDOT data shows speeding was STILL VERY MUCH present in the millions on Route 17 Marshall to Warrenton. They issue a speed citation at 11mph over the set speed limit, so some speeding is still being allowed. Parents or guardians will end up having conversations with the young drivers in their homes to be aware NOT to speed. My father had same conversation with me back when I was 16 with 1st drivers license driving the family car. He told me any tickets I get I will be paying him back thru summer work. Any damages done to the vehicle I will pay him back thru summer work. I never got a speeding ticket, but I did put a dent in my father's truck backing up into a pole and I had to pay for it. I NEVER dented the car again after that bill to fix it. Young drivers are MORE prone to cause crashes that lead to death and injury and that is why insurance rates are MUCH higher for them. So parents having conversations IN ADVANCE knowing speed ticket camera's are present on Fauquier Roads will establish GOOD driving behavior before it gets BAD and dangerous. Best education starts in the home with Mom and Dad, and speed ticket camera's will stimulate that because Mom and Dad will NOT want to get a $100 bill in the mail. Some Virginia counties are implementing a 1st time citation to be only $50 so as to provide a KIND WARNING Wake UP Call . I think that is fair, and legislation could work that into the various speed ticket camera bills as needed.

Last Name: Warner Organization: Route 17 Traffic Calming Speeding Out of Control Locality: Marshall Virginia

I support speed ticket cameras to be allowed on dangerous roads in Virginia, especially Route 17. These devices will get the speeding under quick serious control. This is NOT about making money as I have read in some online articles about speed ticket camera's. They do make money as does any citation would, however if they make a lot of money it is because an area must have a SERIOUS speeding problem in that area. The online articles often refer to the money reinvested back into a county to repair or implement other public safety project needs that otherwise would NEVER get done or cause the need to raise our taxes. Its a WIN-WIN situation. Lives will be saved thru less crashes due to speeding, and I constantly see people driving and texting on Route 17 all the time. It scares me often. Police just cannot keep up with the speeding problem, and I am watched a video for Richmond General Assembly 2024 session about how gangs, drugs and human trafficking are on a continued dangerous rise. So let the speed ticket camera's help take a HUGE burden off of police on the worst roads so they can focus on these other criminal elements PLEASE. Republicans from information shared with me show they have primarily VOTED NO for these bills and stopped them multiple times in the past. We need these devices and the technology is available to support them now in 2024 so USE IT. These devices are proven to work well in Maryland, and Ohio and other states. Tractor trailers using Route 17 is going to continue to rise due to the Ports of Virginia growth I per trade journals I read. They care only about speeding thru Fauquier to make money to deliver cargo quicker. I rarely see them pulled over by police, except for more recently around June thru September 2023 which I was told was due to a fellow supporter speaking with Governor Youngkin helping us out some. If the Governor made a call to get the police out on Route 17 for speeding than the problem must be bad.

Last Name: Hancock Organization: Fauquier County Route 17 Speeding Marshall to Warrenton Public Safety Locality: Fauquier County, The Plains

I support HB 20, 461, 521, 533, 905, 1032 that all have to do with Speed Ticket Camera to ASSIST police to get the long term speeding under serious control. Too many tractor trailers tailgating drivers to speed above the 55mph speed limit on Route 17. Commuter vehicles DO NOT respect locals when they slow down to turn into driveways off of Rte 17 with TOO MANY near misses. Some citizens have died due to speeding while texting. Information in this posting is specific to Route 17 Marshall to Warrenton which is dangerous with many large and small hills, blind curves and x3 Deadly intersections of Belvoir Rd, Old Tavern Rd and Blantyre Road where crashes occur a lot at Old Tavern Rd intersection. VDOT made some minor upgrades at Old Tavern Rd intersection, but primarily is NOT Helping as speeding still continues. VDOT's actions are typically NOT affective to help and ignore majority of citizens input at June 7th 2022 Public Meeting to simply lower the speed limit to 45mph or 50mph from Warrenton to Marshall as a way to help traffic enter and exit Route 17. Slow moving LONG equestrian and farm livestock trailers are at highest risk plus the school buses trying to navigate ONTO or OFF of Route 17 due to speeding in both directions. The gaps have become much more limited than in the past to find SAFE breaks in the traffic flows in both directions. Speed Ticket Camera's function in the following sensible way: 1. Issue speed ticket at 11mph over the speed limit. State Police and Fauquier Sheriff Dept data combined with VDOT data shows Millions of speeders above the 55mph zone on Route 17 Marshall to Warrenton yet only around 300 to 400 speed citations issued per year COMBINED by State Police and Deputies on this section of Route 17. 2. Police data shows they Primarily write speed citations at 74mph in a 55mph zone on Route 17. Speed ticket cameras would issue a citation at 66mph in a 55mph zone which is MUCH better and would capture MILLIONS of speeders to STOP speeding. 75mph in a 55mph zone in Virginia per law is Reckless driving, so police are allowing reckless driving before they engage to chase down a speeder if the police are even present. They are outnumbered and NEED HELP thru Technology. 3. Cameras ONLY take photo of rear of Vehicle so no invasion of privacy. DMV and VDOT camera systems on I-66 HOV lanes to collect payment and issue fines. Camera systems also mounted on poles all along I-66. School buses in Fauquier have camera systems on ALL sides of a bus to help capture speeders that are supposed to STOP behind a school bus picking up or Dropping off children on Rte 17. Warrenton Walmart, grocery stores and businesses have camera's in their parking lots. Cell phones are worst tracking of a person privacy than they realize. So invasion of privacy is a POOR excuse NOT to implement these devices that will save peoples lives thru speed reduction. 4. Because school buses on Rte 17 drop off and pick up children as they do in school zones where speed ticket cameras are now allowed per 2020 law, Rte 17 essentially is a EXTENSION of a SCHOOL zone. Rte 17 is MUCH more Dangerous than a school zone, and the school buses BY LAW must STOP in the RIGHT hand lane of Rte 17 and NOT allowed to pull off onto a shoulder. Shoulder lanes barely exist anyway. 5. VDOT has NOT provided wide enough shoulder widths for police safe enforcement. Speed Ticket Cameras DO NOT need widened road shoulders to do the job well.

Last Name: Filling Organization: Route 17 Traffic Calming Speeding, Deaths, Injuries for Public Safety Improvements Locality: Fauquier County

I support HB 20, 461, 521, 533, 905, 1032 that all have to do with Speed Ticket Camera to ASSIST police to get the long term speeding, increasing fatalities and injuries due to vehicle crashes on Route 17 Marshall to Warrenton (8.5 Miles). Police need HELP and unable to keep the speeding under long term control. Statements by Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sheppard Miller said to Senate Transportation Committee and House of Delegate Transportation Committee in 2023 and 2024: "Critically important to them is public safety and highway deaths are still a serious problem in Virginia for many years. Over 1000 deaths per year on Virginia highways for many years in Virginia is too many and that needs serious attention." Used the analogy that if 1000 deaths were from x3 jet airliners crashing in the same year that it would garner immediate attention to fix it, but because the deaths are spread out across a year on Virginia Highways in different locations it does not get serious attention. NOTE* Mr Miller made no mention of the many other regular road ways that have speeding and fatalities besides just on highways. Terrance C. Cole Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security said to House of Delegates Public Safety Committee on January 12th 2024. "Overall decline in individuals serving in law enforcement has placed additional strain on existing personal.” "Police forces are under INCREASING Threats, and causes increase stress, PTSD, and anxiety in their lives." This supports the need for Speed Ticket Camera's to assist police to get a serious handle of the out of control speeding for public safety all over Fauquier County and Virginia because of police forces diminished since COVID and struggling to hire more officers per my direct contact with State Police about this also. State Police informed me COVID just sped up a known problem with many State Police Officers were ready for retirement, and past Sheriff Robert Mosier said in all his years in law enforcement he had NEVER witnessed the mass exodus of police forces. Terrance Coal Secretary of Homeland Security and Public Safety stated the following facts to the House of Delegate Public Safety Committee at this 2024 Session: 1. Human and sex Trafficking has increased in Virginia Common Wealth and linked to gangs and organized criminal organizations. Violent crimes on the rise. Public safety is a serious position, and emphasized killing of kids is happening due to gang growths. 2. Illegal Drugs in Virginia also on the rise. Mexican cartels stated as main problem distributing Fentanyl is the main problem and serious influence in Common Wealth of Virginia. More dangerous drugs on the rise such as Nitazene that is 10x deadlier than Fentanyl. 3.Gang activity increasing in common wealth of Virginia. 648 Home Grown and National Gangs operating in Virginia. “The commonwealth of Virginia is experiencing significant public safety and homeland security challenges which is attributed to the violence associated with Street Gangs, Human / Labor Trafficking, Influx of illegal narcotics, Legislation which has weakened law enforcement’s ability to interdict, sale of unregulated marijuana products” Essentially POLICE have plenty of work to keep them BUSY protecting society from further break down. Speed Ticket Camera's can address the speeding problem to allow police to focus more on gangs, drugs and human sex trafficking.

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