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Thursday, September 21, 2006


Yet another example why the red-light cameras are about money, and not about safety.
Hundreds of drivers who ran red lights while making turns at intersections newly monitored by cameras have not been issued tickets because of a loophole in the photo-enforcement ordinance.

"The way the current city ordinance is written, turns are excluded, even if they are illegal turns," said Houston police Sgt. Michael Muench.
I realize that the city will fix this loophole before the ink's dry on tomorrow's paper, but why the exclusion? It's obviously harder to make a case for someone 'rolling through' a right-turn on red situation, but the left turn? If you run that light, isn't that much more dangerous than running a red light? Why was that excluded? It can't be about the fines, can it?

Where is the public outcry for this surveillance? Are the sheeple of Houston really this fat, dumb and complacent? I'm afraid I already know the answer to that one.

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