TexasCHLforum.com

Always good reading:

http://thenewspaper.com/

Check out the sentences for "showing disrespect to a camera" in the UK. They also have an article on the Trans-Texas Corridor and the slimy deals being made.

Just in case anyone wonders about the true motive for these cameras...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 8120d.html

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/15/dall ... -theyre-w/
Dallas considers shutting off red light cams, since they're working too well and harming revenue.
Posted Mar 15th 2008 9:41PM by Paul Miller

There's just one, fairly ironic, flaw to the otherwise totally lovable red light cameras that adorn Dallas: they work too well. Turns out the cams have curtailed red light infractions by 50 percent, which in turn has put a budget crunch on City Hall. The city is now considering stopping its planned rollout of more cameras, or shutting down the cameras on a rotating basis -- upkeep when off is next to nothing, but the city pays $3,799 per month per online camera to its service provider. That sounds like quite a spendy broadband bill, but we're not the experts here. Just remember kids, your government wants what's best for you, and what's best for you is a well-funded government, alright?

TexAg08 wrote:We just got those red light cameras here in College Station. According to the press releases from the PD and TxDOT, private companies run the cameras and collect the money from the tickets, however, any unpaid ticket is not enforced by the local PD, it actually goes on your credit record. The tickets also do not show up on your driving record.

Sounds like a typical private vendor scenario. The definition of "fascism" includes a collusion between government and private forces.

http://thenewspaper.com/news/22/2236.asp
http://thenewspaper.com/news/22/2232.asp
http://thenewspaper.com/news/22/2225.asp
http://thenewspaper.com/news/22/2224.asp
http://thenewspaper.com/news/22/2215.asp

Xander wrote:... you'll have a video that you can review (assuming they even bother to try and ticket you in the first place) that will allow you to prove that you were already in the intersection before the light turned red.

Isn't sitting in the intersection when you can't procede, still Failure To Yield?

I know that one of my pet peeves --people who pull out half a car length beyond the stop line-- is the same as running a red light.

CHL/LEO wrote:Oh yeah, Speeding Cameras are just around the corner. You think that Red Light Cameras cause controversy, just wait until speeding cameras start going up all around the state. The media ran a story about a town in North Texas that put one up and the residents were going crazy about it. It's portable so it gets moved all the time.

It's probably going to get moved to the bottom of a lake one of these days.

http://thenewspaper.com/news/21/2168.asp

http://thenewspaper.com/news/21/2163.asp