Road Watch Program - What Is the Purpose?

I really don't understand what is the purpose of this chunky piece of equipment on the side of the road telling me how fast I am driving. I already have the tachometer front of me to know that. No matter what, some aggressive drivers are going to speed, and only will slow down if they knew the consequence. Meaning, drive through speeding tickets. Kidding aside, in my opinion, I rather have a police with a radar gun pointing at the aggressive drivers, but that is just my own opinion again.

I did little searching on the web and I found the road watch web site. Looks like 'AWARENESS, EDUCATION and ENFORCEMENT are the goals of the ROAD WATCH program' in Ontario. Good goals to have, and I am sure this is an excellent program. This makes me think again, may be this chunky speeding monitoring box is useful after all. As a pedestrian you can actually know the speed of the aggressive driver, and you can report them to the police. However, there is a small downside of that. Remember road watch is for awareness - the aggressive driver will not be fined, only notified by letter by the police. Which is fine, because how do they really know if that someone is telling the truth. Also we probably have limited number of police to be available for each street in Aurora.

And now to conclude, the fun part. I was actually cloaked by this equipment 'running' at 32 km/h. It may not be correct, but I still feel good that I can run that that fast, and under the speed limit.