Posted on 06/01/2019 4:24:45 PM PDT by DFG
Governor Greg Abbott has officially signed legislation banning red light cameras across Texas.
House Bill 1631 prohibits the use of "photographic traffic signal enforcement systems".
It was proposed by North Texas Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R-Bedford).
Gov. Abbott signed the bill on Saturday after it passed through the House and Senate this legislative session.
Even though red light cameras are now banned in the Lone Star State, you may continue to see them in some place for the next few years because the bill allows cities that could be penalized by suddenly breaking a vendor's contract to honor the contract until it expires.
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Are they ok in the red light district?
Only temporary. If you don’t think we will one day get automated speeding tickets, you cray cray, at least not paying attention.
In the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas there is a song "Texas Has A Whorehouse In It".
Does this mean there actually is one in Texas?
Only temporary. If you don’t think we will one day get automated speeding tickets, you cray cray, at least not paying attention.
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Even Minneapolis had the sense to ban these unconstitutional money machines long ago.
The ticket is not sent to the offender, it is sent to the owner of the vehicle. The vehicles I drive are registered in the name of my company.
Good riddance. I’ve only been stung by one of those cameras once, and that was enough.
Warning to any FReepers around Tampa! There’s red light cams still in use, at S. Dale Mabry and Gandy Blvd. (US 92) and the one I got busted at, Adamo Dr. and US 41, near the Selmon Expwy. They did remove the ones up in Brooksville.
I know there was a pretty good one west of Ft. Wolters, Mineral Wells a long time ago.
Fun place too, it had a real old west saloon behind the main house.
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house of ill repute in Texas....
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Now there will be no red light speeding tickets for all the FReeper males rushing to the place you mentioned.
Rascals that they are.
If they didn’t would they sing about it?
In California, a red light means there is only time for
three more cars to make it through the intersection.
Some places have photo radar and give speeding tickets that way. The technology is there, just will take time to implement it.
Oh, you know those songwriters.
“Without freedom of speech
I might be in that swamp.”—
Motorpsycho Nitemare, (1964) Bob Dylan.
They took them out in Rochester NY....because too many people who got caught were poor or IIRC, union members.
I got “stung” by PLANO because the person who was actually driving it got STUCK out in the intersection, when the light changed from GREEN to YELLOW to RED & the City of Plano was GREEDY & DISHONEST enough to still stick me with a ticket, even when they KNEW that I wasn’t in the car & what had actually happened.
(The driver sent a letter to the City of Plano telling the facts of what happened.)
According to the city ordinance, whoever owns the vehicle is 100% responsible for any “red-light infractions”.
As you may have guessed, I’m STILL angry. - Further, I believe that the law should have required all fines collected by the “red-light traps” to be refunded.
Yours, TMN78247
I hate them because they are dangerous. One here in my town is at a light where one direction is going down a hill! Terminal velocity is reached, light turns on you, and pucker factor breaks meter as you weigh possibly crashing to stop (or being crashed into) vs. getting a ticket.
Personally, I will further state that those cities that still have contracts be REQUIRED to NOT use them for the balance of the contracts. = Perhaps paying for “red light cameras” that they cannot use as “money machines” will “be a lesson to” jurisdictions that choose to try to find a SCAM to get $$$$$$$$$$$$ unethically/dishonestly.
Yours, TMN78247
Yep. When your light turns green you better count before you start across. I always give it at least 5 seconds, some intersections 10.
A big problem with red-light cameras in the past was their bad tendency to not positively identify the offending vehicle in question, especially at night. No wonder why the Sacramento County and the City of Sacramento replaced the original red light cameras with new models that use high-definition cameras to avoid this problem.
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