Lt. Mike Pryor of the Tucson Police Department tells us that cameras to bust speeders and red-light runners should be up and running by mid-August.
It’s taking a bit longer than Pryor had hoped to get the program underway, but the city now has a contract with American Traffic Solutions of Scottsdale. The company is surveying several Tucson intersections to determine how to set up cameras, which will be set to catch people who run the red lights or speed.
The pilot program will also include a mobile van to nab speeders.
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2007.
TPD has experience with cameras:
http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=42837
(Sources tell Red Star that the unfortunate McNitt is now doing…doing…yep, background checks for the dept)
Albuquerque set up this same program a little over a year ago and got caught “short lighting” the yellow caution phase of the lights. Less seconds for the yellow catches more folks in the intersection and therefore more outgrageous fines for the city. Prepare for more rear end crashes.
It’s all for your safety. We’re the ones that keep asking the governments to “protect” us and “Keep us safe form terror”. Well, think of speeding and running red lights as urban terrorism.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2007-02-08/news/gotcha/
http://scottsdaletimes.com/dec06-feature1.asp
Big brother is here.