Wednesday, November 01, 2006
Traffic Light Cameras = Bad Idea
Swampscott selectmen and their Committee to Study Red-light Cameras disagree on the merits of Article 4 of the upcoming special Town Meeting, which was approved for the warrant by the selectmen Oct. 18.
The article will ask Town Meeting for approval of an automated red light enforcement system, a photographic monitoring system designed to enforce red light traffic laws in town by taking pictures of offenders' license plates.
I appreciate the fact that the Selectmen want cameras at traffic lights, but they're a bad idea. Whether Selectman Paster is right - that cameras will be a "deterrent" to bad driving - shouldn't matter. Civil rights trumps bad driving - and who wants Big Government looking in on our every move? No thanks!
Town Meeting should vote against the proposition. I only regret that I'm no longer a member.
# posted by Ryan @ 5:35 AM 
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Red light cameras are a growing trend that produce revenue for cities. They are safety hazards because poeple tend to drive erratically around them. www.PhotoEnforced.com has all of the locations around the country and has maps.
The report of the Red Light Camera Committee is available at:
http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2006/swampscott.pdf
(It's an adobe .pdf file)
I haven't read it; it's around 70 pages or something.
At least they produced a report of their efforts. The Technology Committee of Swampscott was in charge of studying the cable needs of Swampscott, among other things, and there's no documentary record at all of any of their activities: no report, no minutes of their meetings.
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http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/docs/2006/swampscott.pdf
(It's an adobe .pdf file)
I haven't read it; it's around 70 pages or something.
At least they produced a report of their efforts. The Technology Committee of Swampscott was in charge of studying the cable needs of Swampscott, among other things, and there's no documentary record at all of any of their activities: no report, no minutes of their meetings.
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