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What Should Cities Do If 90% Of Drivers Exceed The Speed Limit?

Posted on September 15th, 2009 in , , | 34 Comments
According to an article on Chattanoogan.com, a recent traffic study performed on Signal Mountain, Tennessee's roads showed that more than 90% of drivers exceeded the posted speed limit. Can you guess what the city's response was to this fact? If you guessed ...

The Truth About Speed Cameras: They Don’t Work

Posted on August 11th, 2009 in | 68 Comments
Anyone who believes that speed cameras have a large impact on the speed of the vehicles on a freeway should check out this study published last month. In order to evaluate how effective speed cameras are at reducing driver speeds, Craig ...

School Is Never Out For Speed Cameras

Posted on July 28th, 2009 in , | 14 Comments
A popular way for ticket camera manufacturers to "get their foot in door" and quiet opposition of speed cameras in a city is to mention that the cameras will be installed in school zones. After all, what politician wants to ...

A Speeding Ticket By Mail? It Could Happen To You This Holiday Weekend

Posted on July 2nd, 2009 in , , | 14 Comments
This is our most recent national press release. Feel free to forward it your friends who may be traveling this holiday weekend. The Fourth of July is one of the busiest traffic days of the year and many motorists will be ...

Ticket Cameras Used To Convict Drivers Without Their Knowledge

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 in , | 20 Comments
The law in the state of Oregon (and other states as well) simply says that citations "may be delivered by mail." There is an article on OregonLive.com today that illustrates why this is a major flaw in Oregon's red-light camera ...

Watch Your Wallet When Driving Through These 10 States

Posted on May 22nd, 2009 in , , , , , , , , | 77 Comments
With the first major driving holiday of the summer season approaching, we have analyzed the laws across the country to determine the best and the worst states when it comes to exploiting the motoring public. These state rankings were calculated using ...

Majority Of Speed Camera Photos In Arizona Are Unusable

Posted on May 19th, 2009 in , | 5 Comments
The Arizona Republic did an analysis of the speed camera program and concluded that the majority of photos had to be thrown out. Here's an excerpt: Motorists activated photo-enforcement cameras on Arizona highways more than 471,000 times from December through February ...

Washington Department Of Transportation Outsources Its Disingenuous Quotes To Ticket Camera Company

Posted on May 5th, 2009 in | 6 Comments
The Washington Department of Transportation has installed speed cameras on Interstate 5 in Maytown south of Olympia, Washington where road crews are working on a project. The speed limit in the work zone has been reduced from 70 to 60. This ...

Short Yellow Light Times No Longer Going Unnoticed

Posted on April 15th, 2009 in , , | 6 Comments
There was an excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal today on the topic of ticket cameras and short yellow light times. This is part of an increasing trend in ticket camera press coverage. Two years ago, the press never mentioned ...

Ticket Camera Scams Are Plentiful In The D.C. Area

Posted on February 17th, 2009 in , | 2 Comments
A new website, launched in January, is documenting the various ticket camera scams in D.C., Virginia, and Maryland. It's called CameraFraud DC and is an offshoot of the successful CameraFraud movement started in Arizona. Here a few of the ...




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