Seven Traffic Tickets You Should Always Plead Not Guilty To. Part 1, Red Light Cameras
Red Light Cameras And The Dilemma Zone They Create.
The pushers of photo enforcement brought in red light cameras well over a decade ago to cities in North America, starting in New York City and then as the revenue that was generated from them was realized, they spread like a virus across the continent and to other parts of the world.
On close examination of the facts surrounding them though, it is quickly realized that they are the biggest scam that has been perpetuated in the name of traffic safety and have been found to create more collisions at intersections and actually decreased safety.
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UK Study Reveals No Safety Benefit Achieved With Speed Cameras
Collision Data Determines That Speed Cameras Offer No Increase To Road Safety
As reported in TheNewspaper.com
A private study of the effect of speed cameras in Thames Valley, England concluded Tuesday that the devices failed to produce a measurable safety benefit. Dave Finney, an electronics engineer, produced the report by examining accident data from the Thames Valley Safer Roads Partnership before and after cameras were activated at 212 permanent sites and at all 105 locations where mobile photo radar vans were routinely parked. Most of the permanent installations were activated between 1993 and 1998.
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Retired Washington Judge Fights Photo Radar Ticket
Retired Judge Feels Lack Of Driver Identity Makes The Tickets Invalid
In Longview, Washington Retired Cowlitz County Judge Jim Warme doesn’t feel he should be on the hook for the fine he recently received. That’s because the photo radar ticket does not show who was driving that allegedly speeding car, which Washington State law doesn’t require.
The $144 ticket that Warme was charged with was from a photo radar camera that was installed outside Columbia Valley Gardens Elementary School in Longview. The ticket, which was issued claims Warme’s vehicle was speeding at more than 10 mph over the speed limit.
WiseUpWinnipeg.com Shuts Down Winnipeg Speed Trap By Posting Large Sign Near Roadway
Reflective Sign Warns Drivers Of Abused Speed Trap Frequented By Winnipeg Police Service Officers.
On Monday January 9th Todd Dube of WiseUpWinnipeg.com issued the following press release
Winnipeg Motorists and Residents Fed Up with Abusive Traffic Enforcement Will unveil proper speed limit sign on Monday, January 9th at 1:00 PM
January 9, 2012 Winnipeg, MB. — For years now, Winnipeg motorists leaving the city’s south end on Pembina Hwy (Hwy #75 South) have complained about a poorly-signed, inadequately low speed limit that results in a one-mile stretch of divided highway to be chronically radar-enforced by Winnipeg Police Service. While this predatory enforcement has been occurring for years, it has increased over the last 4 months to 6hrs per day, almost daily. No other speed-trap location in Winnipeg results in as many complaints to WiseUpWinnipeg from angry motorists.
Winnipeg: Protestors Gather At Grant And Nathaniel Against City’s Photo Radar
Group Sends Solid Message To Mayor Sam Katz….Stop Ripping Us Off!!
In an impressive show of solidarity yesterday, protestors gathered at the now infamous intersection of Grant and Nathaniel in the City of Winnipeg to tell Mayor Sam Katz and Winnipeg City Police Chief Keith McCaskill that they are fed up with the predatory and unsafe photo radar program that is unfair to the city’s drivers and is being used as a revenue generation tool and does nothing to improve safety or change driver behavior.
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