While I wish that traffic cameras would improve/change driver behavior in CT and elsewhere, the evidence is mixed/against improved driver behavior.

First, we don't need another administrative infrastructure that puts costs onto generally law abiding citizens. These tickets are mailed out based on your registration. If you are registered, your car is insured. Thus, there is no pressure to change the behavior of unregistered and uninsured motorists, IMHO a bigger threat to drivers at large.

Second, will traffic camera enforcement punish the driver or the owner of the vehicle? How can you prove who was driving when? In the absence of such proof, the burden shifts to fines on the owner of the vehicle. Is this what we want to do?

Third, who is paying for the tech? Will we outsource this to a private firm? How will that firm get paid? From a share of the fines levied? In CA, judges reduced fines and awarded community service which inadvertently reduced municipal, county and state revenue, making the system too costly to operate as the government had to pay for the cameras whether or not the cameras generated enough money to pay for themselves.

Fourth, what will the state do with that data from speed cameras? We've already seen the abuses with automated license plate readers. See the article at EFF about those abuses.

Yeah and the technological capability of their system is fascinating and terrifying at the same time. Their camera system has facial recognition and they use it to instantenaously profile people in transit to and from major transit hubs like train stations and airports. By the time you hit the first roundabout at Heathrow by vehicle, you've already had a background check, criminal record check for warrants, and a verification that you're on a flight manifest.

This isn’t a pizza contest; it is a popularity contest. The prerequisite of actually eating the pizza at any of these places doesn’t exist. There’s also nothing from stopping multiple votes or incentives given by businesses for votes. It exists solely to get you to watch WFSB, simple.

Mother’s Day weekend, Fairfield has its Dogwood Festival up on the greenfield hill. May 12 and 13 I think. This year will be the 86th annual. Dogwoods ‘should’ be in full bloom and it is very scenic ride up there, beautiful houses, blooming trees, etc. there are crafts and refreshments etc. it will be busy, so if you don’t want to get out and walk around, you can just drive through the neighborhoods and enjoy the scenery Fairfield also has beaches and a great little town history museum. You can Aaron Burrs house right down the street and lots of historical houses and cemeteries.
Have a fantastic trip! Edit: added stuff

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I highly recommend reaching out to University Dentists in Farmington. It is run by the Uconn School of Dentistry and one of their Dr's will develop a plan of action for you are won't hesitate to refer you to a specialist. My one piece of advise is SEE A SPECIALIST FOR ANY NON GENERAL WORK! Root canal? Endodontist. Gum disease? Periodontist. Wisdom teeth removal? Oral surgeon. Uconn has all of those specialists in house and take a ton of dental plans. Good luck you'll do great!

Vehicle miles traveled has rebounded; it was about 99.3% of its 2019 levels in 2022. (Maybe like 95-97% of what would be expected if growth had continued uninterrupted.) Those are all good places to look for improvement, though.

Speed and Enforcement: Speed has definitely gotten a lot worse, since speeding was essentially legalized during the pandemic and enforcement has not kept up with the need for it since.

Big Cars: Bigger cars a problem, especially when they get in crashes with much smaller cars. It's also a problem that people feel safer in bigger cars - and they actually are, statistically. But everybody else is less safe, and their feeling of safety might make them more careless at the wheel.

Lack of pedestrian infrastructure: Not sure about this one... modern design practices should be, if gradually, leading to better outcomes for pedestrians, but instead they're getting worse. I think pedestrians are just in more danger for the reasons that drivers have gotten more reckless overall.

Another thing that might be playing a factor is an over-reliance on safety features like adaptive cruise control, or worse yet, the Tesla stuff, resulting in drivers who aren't ready to take control when they need to be.

I think the best thing we could do for traffic safety, really, is to have the Ad Council blast out the message that you need to leave proper following distance and should generally try to maximize your distance from other drivers.

Tell me you’ve never been to west hartford, without telling me you’ve never been to west hartford.

Maybe u/bankofgreed was trying to be helpful in case OP was asking because spring Turkey hunting season is coming.

That cashier could afford a 5000 sf home and college tuition on her salary.

No. There is not.

Sarcasm, but still.......It's like the lowest of low hanging fruit. I could congratulate my kid for doing subtraction, but he should be doing algebra.

Up until recently it was by far the most likely way my child, myself and my family would all die. I don't consider that acceptable.

In CT if you're only going 15 over the limit people will be honking and flipping you off as they pass at 30+ over.

It's far too vast of a topic to be attributed to any one metric. Miles driven have plummeted the past few years, yet deaths are way up. All the following and many many more factors are all at play:

1. phones
2. bigger cars
3. faster speeds
4. NO enforcement
5. lack of pedestrian infrastructure in growing population centers

They have a system like that in the UK

The note does something pretty wrong. If you're going to translate one part of the name, you should translate the whole thing. Yes, "Elon" means "oak tree". But "musk" comes from a Sanskrit word meaning "testicle". So his name is Oak Tree Testicle. Poor dude is named "acorn"

go for it bro! look into brickwork vs concrete work and see which one you'd like more.

On a side note, if both seem like stuff you don't want to do you can become a tile setter as well - they just don't advertise that.

Yup. Lamont, who I like, said as much. He wants them everywhere. He actually said - we’ll be able to keep an eye on you. It’s just horrible for civil liberties and govt surveillance.

Yeah this is the psychedelic hippy crowd over there

This is the stupid. We spent billions every year on traffic safety and safer cars. Up until the last couple years the number of fatalities per capita per year was almost always going down.

$15/hr is not a living wage. Maybe if you live at your parent's house and it's a part time wage for a kid in tech school or high school, but there is no way that a person can pay rent, afford a vehicle and insurance, pay for the bare minimum of healthcare, and provide themselves with food in this state, or any other. The system is broken.

you can try Harkness Memorial State Park , a Newport style mansion with gardens in Waterford. Nearby is fort Trumbull in New London, a masonry fort with nice grounds on the Thames River.

Update: Apparently my address was too long to be entered in the system when the DMV entered it the first time so they abbreviated it which may be the reason it did not arrive.

After switching my mailing address to my job, it arrived within 2 weeks. I also went to AAA to get my 4th copy which should be arriving soon. Of course the same day I went to AAA my third copy came in the mail at my job.