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traffic cams
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:19 pm
by sun rat
so the mustang was caught on a cam in arlington running a red light.
i need to take another look at that intersection because if i was doing what i think i was doing, i was turning right on red which is usually legal except where marked.
but i know how these dicks play this game, no matter what i say i will have to forego the 75 bucks. fuckers.
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:09 am
by dozer
I just got a red light ticket on the SV, a speeding camera ticket on the Vespa...fuck the goddamn spy cameras!
Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 9:58 am
by Ames
Innocent until proven guilty...except in traffic court. I've never seen such a rigged example of Napoleonic Law in my life.
Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2010 9:29 pm
by stiles
In California they are now programming some red light cameras to photograph drivers who fail to stop completely before turning right on red. The fine itself is around $100, but the municipality and sometimes the state tack on so many fees that the ticket is often near $450 when all is said and done, which is fucking ridiculous.
Traffic enforcement cameras are all about revenue, not safety. The majority of the drop in red-light and right-turn violations noted after the installation of cameras could be achieved at near-zero cost by lengthening yellow light duration by a second or two - here's one example:
$13.5 million in fines generated in three years by just four intersections!
http://blog.photoenforced.com/2010/02/l ... -turn.html
Rigsby noted that the city's decision to increase the length of time that the lights are yellow by one second, at the expense of green lights, has reduced the number of left-turn violations from 240 month to 25 or 30.
He said the most egregious violations involve motorists who drive straight ahead through red lights and those incidents at the four intersections produced only five violations.
"That is tremendous improvement in safety from what we were seeing in the past," he said. "We could have had that safety with lengthening the yellow lights four years ago instead of installing red-light cameras.
Councilman Floyd Petersen, who has complained about the steep fines for right turns, said he was impressed with the decline in violations. He said it is "a very strong indication ... of increased safety at the intersections."
He also said that despite that decline, "I still very, very strongly feel that another issue needs to be addressed here. A $450 ticket for right-hand turn is ludicrous."