Texas DOT to Install Federally Funded Highway Speed Cameras

theNewspaper.com ^ | 6/11/2007 | Staff

[e_castillo]

Disgusting. Cars are now safer than ever before and we still have the same speed limits that were posted in the 1960’s.

Government has an insatiable appetite for our money and Rick Perry is toataly out of line on this.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping to you. You may wanna ping the other Hubbers.

[_Jim]

Hmmm ... does identification rely on a front plate?

[Ron H.]

Texans had best inundate their elected Reps and Senators and the Governor demanding that this madness be put to a halt. It is uyyer madness. This a money as well as a power grab.

[TADSLOS]

Correct me if I'm mistaken... if it is anything like red light running cameras... they will not allow a jury trial by classifying the infraction as a civil offense - you'll not get the option to a jury trial.

However, they'll try to "soften" the blow by not having the speeding "offense" show on your driving record... oooo, goody-goody. Just send the state the $200 fine and all's good in the world of big bro.

True. This exact scenario happened to a neighbor of mine driving thru Marble Falls last month.

[aruanan]

Here’s what’s going to happen in virtually every state with electronic tolls: at some point they’re going to start sending out tickets to everyone who has gone between two toll stations in a time shorter than the speed limit will allow. The state will show some fine print somewhere that declares that accepting the speed pass (ha ha) constitutes an agreement to pay a fine for exceeding the speed limit between toll points. The states will attempt in one fell swoop to raise hundreds of millions of dollars.

[aruanan]

Only takes one juror applying jury nullification to ruin big brothers day.

In the interests of "public safety" they'll switch to a non-jury system.

[Fresh Wind]

President Hillary’s almost certain to resurrect the universally hated “double nickel” speed limit to fight Global Warming®. Of course, we are in such urgent danger that speed cameras will be necessary for enforcement, for the children, of course.

Revolution, anyone?

[CORedneck]

Sounds like a "coverall" type of law !

Back in my college days, our University had a coverall type of rule. If another rule couldn't be used to cite someone that the administration wanted to bust, they used this rule - "conduct unbecoming of a student".

[Fresh Wind]

Suppose the speed cameras do their job and force 100% compliance with the speed limit. The camera revenue drops to zero. Of course, by then, the state has come to rely on that revenue stream.

Can anyone guess what happens next?

[Arrowhead1952]

.....TxDOT cited success of speed cameras in the UK, which generated £120 million (US $240 million) in revenue in 2003, and in Washington, DC, which has generated $217 million in revenue with its red light and speed cameras since 1999.

Texas highway speeder ping. This is just another way to get more revenue.

[luvie]

...and they will use the revenue for what exactly????

I don’t expect to see it going back into roads, do you?