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- From: adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt)
- Subject: Re: Stopping at Signs (was Re: Pushbuttons at crossings...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.215009.12676@ntmtv>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:50:09 GMT
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- In article <jyc.727721777@Leland>, jyc@leo.Stanford.EDU (Jon Corelis) writes:
- > I think the fine for running a red light should be raised to
- > several hundred dollars, and then communities should consider the
- > bozos who run lights as a sort of "cash cow" to be milked by stationing
- > policemen to hand out tickets to every one of them. It would be like
- > shooting fish in a barrel.
-
- Better yet, do what I've seen used on some intersections in Germany:
- Install, as part of the signal-light and auto-sensing system, pole-
- mounted photo units that photograph any auto running a red light.
- This should help improve revenue and/or compliance and at least that
- way the nice policeman can do something a little more useful than
- watching an intersection... This is a great application photo-radar
- type technology. As with photo-radar, the registered owner gets the
- ticket in the mail.
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