[FreedomCalls]

It's all about the revenue.

[massgopguy]

Too many Mexicans. Take’m down.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Michigan AG says their illegal, wonder if TX AG will too?

[Red6]

You got that right!

It’s all about making cash from the motorist, the new government cashcow.

[rednesss]

Think “kickbacks”, the companies that make these machines share in the revenue. Some well placed “lubrication” in the form of green pieces of paper with dead presidents on them and voila, constant surveillance police state America. What a brave new world we’re heading towards.

[IncPen]

It's all about the revenue.

which generated £120 million (US $240 million) in revenue in 2003

One hopes the good people of Texas will make good use of their firearms and remove these nuisances from the public way.

[FreedomPoster]

Texas, eh?

I wonder if these cameras are .270-proof?

[Zathras]

Law enforcement becomes a tax collector.
BATF comes to the highways of America.

[Centurion2000]

I hope DoT is ready for some shot out cameras.

[PAR35]

The politicians have to get the money from someone. Perry's deal with the drug company bit the dust, and he and his buddy Ric are limited (ok, only very slightly limited) in the deals that they can cut to sell the taxpayer built state highways.

Remember, Perry has made it clear that he doesn't need the state pay raise that was authorized.

[sergeantdave]

“Despite the opposition of the state legislature, the Texas Department of Transportation proposes a federally funded speed camera test.”

So who’s running Texas, the elected state legislators or unelected bureaucrats?
If it’s unaccountable bureaucrats, you are living under a de facto dictatorship, where the voter’s right to be represented via the ballot box has been abolished.

[CGTRWK]

In a different country a long time ago, people looked to the future and imagined a world with robot maids, cooks, doctors, chauffeurs. They would do the work while we kicked back and read the paper.

I’m still scrubbing my grill by hand and taking my own trash out, but they’re putting up robot highway robbers all over the country.

Progress?

[Trajan88]

Someone showed them the money and they're going to take, take, & take it.

Nothing like being guilty until proven innocent.

Last I heard, the U.S. Constitution guarantees one's right to face one's accusor, but I guess it doesn't apply here (how can one really question a machine?)... apparently it is all about the "living/breathing" document.

By the way... as a Texas A&M Aggie Former Student, just so y'all know... HWY 6 RUNS BOTH WAYS.

TAMU Class of '88

[LibertarianInExile]

The same RINO GOP that got tossed out of power in DC is doing its best to get tossed out of Austin. When the RINOs come griping after they’re back out of power that it’s the fault of those conservatives who would no longer hold their noses and vote for `em, the question to be asked is, if the GOP saw it happen in DC, how is it not the GOP leadership’s fault for losing the legislature and the governor’s mansion? They’re the ones who kept playing the tax-and-spend-big-gummint tune, knowing the consequences!

[mysterio]

Any community that allows the cameras to remain operational takes what they get. A citizen has to draw the line somewhere. Seems those cameras might be quite pricey to fix.

[Logical me]

Time for the Citizens to organize and get a ballot measure up making the speed limit at least 120 or none at all. Wouldn't that frost them?

[razorback-bert]

warnings at first -- to motorists driving just 5 MPH over the limit with an accuracy level of +/- 2 MPH, meaning those driving just 3 MPH over the limit could receive a photograph and letter in the mail.

Yea, right, I got a warning ticket for 71 in a 70 zone a couple of years ago.

[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.