Or perhaps just another (or returning under a new pseudonym) TROLL looking to stir the pot…
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Do you regularly speed? I don’t. So I don’t have a problem with speed cameras. I got nicked once. Paid the fine. I was speeding by a park. Didn’t realize it.
It slows down traffic. In my hood they place them next to schools and parks. You know, where there are lots of kids. If it saves a kids life I’m in favor of the kids life. Makes me think about other people.
I see what you did there… 
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If temporary, whehow can we see it?
Censors decide for you.
MikeinNH Flagged ?? Good Grief !!
In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Sandy–when there was no electricity in my region–I drove in search of fast food place where I could get something to eat. When I saw a Burger King that–against all odds–had electric power, I was so excited/distracted that I wound-up making a right on red at an intersection where it was prohibited.
I got my ticket in the mail about 1 month later, and because it was so obvious that I had done the wrong thing, I paid the fine. There was no question that I had made a right on red where I should not have done so, so I didn’t gripe or try to contest the violation.
A year or so later, after several studies concluded that the presence of red light cameras had led to a significant increase in cars being rear-ended at those intersections, the NJ Legislature banned red light cameras. It turned-out that the “amber cycle” on those traffic lights had been manipulated/shortened, and when law-abiding drivers suddenly stopped at the red light, other drivers (probably tailgating) frequently rear-ended them.
If some municipalities (and the private companies that operated the cameras for the municipalities) hadn’t been playing games, we would probably still have red light cameras in NJ.
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I’ve heard that from different areas. Such a shame.
The key constitutional point is that the owner of the car is assumed to be the perpetrator which may or may not be true. Second point is that you cannot face your accusor since it is a camera. Both have been determined to violate the Bill of Rights. Parking violations have the same problem.
The law gets around this by applying the violation to the car and not the driver. The driver carries no liability for penalty or to be jailed (supposedly…) but the car can be impounded.
Cape Coral, Florida just installed speed cameras in school zones. People have been getting tickets for driving the speed limit when school zone warnings were not on. Someone in the camera company did not set the times correctly.
I am conflicted on the subject myself. I see so many red light runners and speeders on my street (it ends at a school) and I’d like it to stop.
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