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Old 02-19-2003, 11:14 PM
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You guys better wake up. If you ever travel on the PA Turnpike read the back of the ticket. It states something like " If your travel time is less than the minimum travel time as indicated by your ticket, you can be prosecuted".
Ever heard of the frog in boiling water??

Great editorial about it in Car & Driver. Red light cameras bring Washington, DC $66,300 in revenues - EVERY DAY!!
If you try to contest the ticket it will cost you a non-refundable $20. Neat Scam, isn't it?? If you request camera maint. records to se if it was properly calibrated, you WILL BE DENIED!!
The funniest part is that the cameras actually increased the number of accidents. One jurisdiction actually decreased the number of accidents AND the number of peolple running the red lights to a 1/10th of it's previous rate. How?? They increased the yellow light interval from 4.1 to 5.5 seconds. Needless to say that the revenue from the tickets was never the same.
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