Blogger slams columnist on speed cameras

from Getting There by Michael Dresser

One of Washington's fiercest (and best) bloggers has ripped a Washington Post writer over a column that all but condoned arson when directed against speed cameras.

David Alpert of  Greater Greater Washington does a pithy job of taking apart the Post's Petula Dvorak for her obsession with the sheer injustice of being caught breaking the law by one of those "horrid contraptions" in a column today. Instead, Alpert refocuses the debate where it belongs: the threat to human lives from speeding drivers.

By the way, I'm not sure a "speed tax" is such a bad idea. Speeders are by definition bad drivers and bad drivers impose more costs on the public than responsible ones. Why shouldn't they pay an additional "tax."

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