They are going to need other cameras to just watch speed cameras!
Posted on 05/29/2024 4:09:11 PM PDT by george76
For comparison, the Morrison Police Department issued a total of 1,700 speeding citations in 2023..
MORRISON, Colo. — In its first two weeks, the Town of Morrison's new automated radar camera issued more than 10,000 tickets to speeding drivers, according to Morrison Police Chief Bill Vinelli.
The camera is permanently stationed at Bear Creek Avenue and Mount Vernon Avenue. With a posted speed limit of 25 miles per hour along Bear Creek Avenue, the eastbound camera automatically captures the license plate of drivers going 35 mph or more..
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Tickets are then mailed directly to drivers.
The camera was installed earlier this year and only issued warnings during its first 60 days. It officially began issuing tickets on May 8.
According to Chief Vinelli, in its first two weeks, the camera issued more than 10,000 tickets. For comparison, the Morrison Police Department issued a total of 1,700 speeding citations in 2023.
"This is averaging 1.32 tickets per minute," Vinelli told Denver7
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With so many violations, Vinelli said the town had to jump to a higher data plan to store all the tickets.
Each ticket is $40, meaning the camera brought in more than $400,000 during that two-week period.
"The town's not doing it to make money. The town is doing it because of the tourist attraction that Morrison brings or is," Vinelli said.
Some Morrison residents believe drivers who are ticketed will not pay the fines.
"They're tourists. They don't know the speed limits. They're going to Red Rocks. And those people aren't going to pay the tickets," said one local.
Ceasar tried to hail you instead of vice versa.
I wish we had one on the highway in front of the house.
In other news the town council has elected to buy a remote meeting site in the Bahamas.
Could have been - 55 down to 30 - no flashing yellow lights as I recall - I had a guy speeding up, slowing down in a pickup truck ahead of me (obviously not on cruise control)
He had just peeled off to the East about 4-5 blocks before on a curving road - then I hit the (revenue) town.
I had the car wired for road trips, CB radio (lots of lonely streches of road there, radar detector, dash cam (close to useless, early model very small screen) and an older GPS unit on the dash. I was heading back to the house for Christmas from a lousy job in a small town but I was hoping it would work out.
Guy didn’t even give me a slight break - on Christmas Eve - no alcohol, had just left the boss’s house about an hour earlier (after work). If I had only waited 30 seconds longer.
OR taken my original route heading East about 30-40 miles - missed my turn oops and didn’t head back that way. I was convinced this was a quicker route. Boy was I wrong that day.
A surgical strike with a ball-peen hammer can fix that.
“Cameras should be unconstitutional. How do you confront your accuser in court? How do you explain, identify witnesses, or in any way defend yourself when you get a ticket in the mail weeks or months later? You cannot, thus you are denied due process.”
Right, you can’t haul a camera into court and cross examine it. The National Motorists Association has been fighting these cases all over the country for decades.
That's an admonition to Christians.
Further into the future the ‘camera’ will access your cars gas pedal and slow/stop you in front of the waiting ‘law’ enforcement officer waiting down the road.
Thank you Alexis.
HAL disagrees.
They make the ‘fine’ low enough that your time is worth more to you and you pay up.
There’s just something about that street name that rubs me the wrong way...
make one!
They do a similar thing w/school bus cameras.
If the stop sign begins to deploy while you’re next to the bus you’d normally continue driving as it’s not a complete stop until you’re past, but if you don’t actually pass the sign until the last fraction of a sec, you’ll get snapped.
Doing a Google maps drive (I left Colorado a couple of years ago) it’s posted 40 until past the curve. At the curve there’s a 25 ahead sign and the 25 speed limit sign is around the curve about 50 yds from where they said the camera was installed at the edge of town.
AND one must affirmatively prove one is not guilty ... the NEW Democrat constitutionality in colorado as passed by the Democrat legislature if/until challenged as unconstitutional ...
I’m on I-95 in NJ, sped through a construction zone, don’t have my insurance card. Cop gives me a break, only writes me up for the insurance, no points. My lucky day.
A little while later, I’m in an unfamiliar town, come to a funky 5 sided intersection. The car in front and I both get pulled over for running a red light. It was not my lucky day.
Ouch
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