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Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.

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Is Automated Enforcement Making U.S. Cities Safer or Just Raising Revenue? — Streetsblog USA (usa.streetsblog.org)

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[–] grue 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If these automated enforcement cameras resulted in drivers having to take a course for a few weekends, or lose their car for a week, it might annoy them enough to stop the behaviour. And the penalties should increase if someone continues to break the law.

For the record, I'm 100% opposed to these automated enforcement cameras on "not creating an Orwellian panopticon" grounds (as well as "the accused has the right to confront their accuser" grounds, but frankly that's a distant second).

That said, I love the idea of driving bans for traffic offenses, even relatively minor ones, because the more we force people to experience being carless the more political pressure there will be to make the alternatives decent.