Red light cameras

[Notcho]

For those of you that don't know, a suburb city in the San Antonio area has installed "red light cameras" to snap photo's and mail a fine to the car owner (not the driver) if caught.

I think it's ridiculous......it's nothing more than a revenue generator for the city and has nothing to do with traffic control.

that's it.....

Now discuss.....:D

[BLASTER]

Fewer cops..YEAH!!!! :D
I have mixed feelings about this.
Should I take the side of Big Brother or the phuck-heads on cell phones/dumb asses speeding to get somewhere "important"/selfish bastardos running the lights.

Maybe I'll just stay out of Balcones Heights.
Yea, that's the ticket...or lack there of.

[Notcho]

I know I didn't think this all the way through........that's why I started this thread :o

I guess I'd like them if I LIVED in front of one of those intersections.

Just wait till a San Antonio Police Car or Firetruck runs one of those lights on the way to an emergency......:eek: :D

[Robottsuperbug]

How about tolls??

[Notcho]

How about tolls??

Start your own thread............Ass


:p

Kidding, tolls suck.....we pay enough taxes to figure all this stuff out.

[Danlboi72sbug]

How about tolls??
Don't EVEN get me started on toll roads...and I don't even live in San Antonio. But, I'm there enough that should they come to be, I'll be doing my best to avoid them as much as I can! :D



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[Notcho]

I am for toll roads from Seguin to San Antonio.

[Turbo Farviknugn]

Here is the FIX to those RED LIGHT cameras !!!!

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/63b29c4b-19ee-4d94-b002-980a00ee0a41.htm

I want one, that would be cool !!!:cool:

[78_vert]

Are they using a smaller version of the bathroom glass that does the same thing?

[rooney2oons]

I need one of those too.
where are these said cameras? I am coming to san antonio with the wife next weekend.

[Danlboi72sbug]

where are these said cameras? I am coming to san antonio with the wife next weekend.
The city of Balcones Heights, I believe.


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[KaferKruzer]

One thing I learned early in my truck driving career - never "just pay" a ticket. Go to court, get a court date, ask for a jury trial (its your right!) always call the officer who wrote the ticket as a witness - if its a red light ticket call as a witness the traffic supervisor who sets up the traffic lights (timing on yellow light is the main thing to ask) - if its a camera ticket always ask to call a rep of the company - ask about fees, revenue, light timing, witnesses etc. You can do a search on the internet and find strategies for challenging most tickets, especially the camera ones.

Several years ago community south of Houston on I45 began using a camera-type radar to give speeding tickets. It was set up at the bottom an overpass entering the freeway. I got 3 tickets in one week for speeding - all were for 3-5 mph over the speed limit. I found several other truck drivers who fell victim to the same scam. We all went to court along with about 15 other people. Not only did we get our cases dismissed, the speed-trap cameras were removed within a month.

As for the red-light cameras, we are going through the same thing where I live. When the company reps explained it at a city council meeting, the first thing they brought up was how much money the city would make off of it. When pressed about it, the company rep admitted that the revenue could be increased by manipulating the green-yellow-red cycle timing by allowing the green to stay on until the traffic moving through the intersection peaks and then turning on a shorter yellow. Then you make the stopped traffic wait longer for the red and repeat the cycle. Most traffic lights where they are installing the cameras already have cameras mounted over the intersection. These detect traffic flow and adjust the light timing accordingly. Furthermore the cameras are designed to catch "sneakers" - those who try to beat the light by a fraction of a second. It reassuring to know they'll mail a ticket to the person who ran a red light 2 seconds into it and killed you and your family...

If cities actually used these things to improve safety and traffic efficiency, it would be a different story. But when the city and the providing company share the profits and begin manipulating light timing cycles and the like, its nothing but a revenue raising scam.

[Robottsuperbug]

I hate how the green lights never last very long! I've got a light on my street that turns onto Bandera and it stays green for 10 seconds maybe. In the mornings its a bitch to get to school because it get's so backed up!

[zozo]

I hate how the green lights never last very long! I've got a light on my street that turns onto Bandera and it stays green for 10 seconds maybe. In the mornings its a bitch to get to school because it get's so backed up!


That's why you should ride the school bus. ;)

[Robottsuperbug]

I wish. If I could I would! But there is no school bus that goes to UTSA.

[exzonie]

Anyone ever been t-boned by an idiot running a red light. Hopefully u never will. Bottom line don't run the light and u won't get a ticket. Who cares if the city make money off of them. Notcho needs a raise anyway! I was w/ my brother in-law on saturday in AZ and he got snapped!
After a few more cities get them there will be crack down on plate covers. Just another reason for probable cause to stop your butt!
Don't use the retarded argument of "invasion of my privacy". Your on a public road not your own land.