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Speed cameras to be implemented and red light cameras to be removed
Frank Krygowski writes:
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 8:44:41 PM UTC-4, Radey Shouman wrote: Frank Krygowski writes: I happened to be browsing through some Ohio traffic laws. I found that Ohio has a law that states that if a red light camera is installed, the yellow light phase has to be exceed the normal (standard) yellow time by one second. That seems fair to me. That surely smells like a reaction to abuse, whether in Ohio or elsewhere. Or alternately, purported abuse. Remember, we have one political party enthusiastically working to require photo IDs and who knows what else to reduce "voter fraud" - fraud which has been shown again and again to be negligible, if not mythical. See http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/316...ickets-for-you Do you think that story was invented? And I don't have a problem with a private firm makes some money by enforcing traffic laws. We can't afford to station cops at every red light, or have radar patrols on every road, so we now have near-zero enforcement, with predictable results: people who think it's the constitutional right to disobey the laws. Private law enforcement is a *huge* conflict of interest. Yet we have private security guards at banks. Those guards are not allowed to confiscate stolen money from bank patrons and add it to the bank coffers. And, really, I don't think that private guards should have more privileges in protecting corporate interests than private citizens do in protecting their own. But that's one of those second amendment things. If there have to be speed cameras, they should be run by a government, and someone should hold that government's feet to the fire to prevent revenue-seeking rule changes. OK, I'm fine with that. I wonder how it's done in other countries? Perhaps part of our problem is that this is the place where some in power feel that Free Enterprise should solve every problem, and that government should be small enough that one can "drown it in a bathtub." Dude, try to stay on topic. -- |
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