Hold on to your wallet

Tell your state Representative and state Senator to vote NO on Speed
Trap Bill SB 459, giving RADAR and LIDAR to municipal police, moving
RADAR to State Police, weakening calibration rules, and promoting speed
cameras.

The primary objective of traffic enforcement must be to ensure safe
usage of highways and not to generate revenue. When limits are posted at
the safest speed, the 85th Percentile Speed of free-flowing traffic,
the falsely ginned-up “speeding problem” goes away, freeing police to go
after the truly dangerous drivers, and not to levy unfair taxes on
reasonable and prudent drivers doing nothing unsafe and harming no one.

Misinformed citizens and politicians would have you believe that there
is an epidemic of speeders run amok that can only be cured by RADAR and
LIDAR. In fact, PennDOT says Pennsylvania’s highways have never been
safer.

Pennsylvania Traffic Deaths Second Lowest on Record in 2020, PennDOT Says

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/04/traffic-fatalities-in-2020-second-lowest-on-record-penndot.html

Highway fatalities at new low in 2019 in Pennsylvania

https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/42130694/penndot-highway-fatalities-hit-a-record-low-in-2019

RADAR cheerleaders can use all the flowery language they want, saying
that RADAR isn't for the money and we will be protected from abuse, but
it is well established in Pennsylvania that Speed Trap Bill SB 459 is
for the express purpose to keep a stream of safe driver’s cash flowing
into government. Urban legend, emotion and intention seem to have become
the principal determinants of government policy, rather than 70+ years
of data produced by highway safety engineers and organizations who have
no financial interest in RADAR enforcement.