They have speed vans here. Abouty twenty or so right now. They bring in so much REVENUE that the city has one hundred more on order.

Not really surprising that those from socialist countries would favor these REVENUE cameras.

 

Just wondering if anyone knows if the camera starts to take its picture as soon as the light turns red. For situations when you are waiting to take a left turn and have to wait for oncoming traffic to stop to make sure it is safe to complete the turn. Would a person in that situation get a ticket. OR would it be a car that crosses a "line" after the light has turned red.

I live in a suburb of Chicago and we are having the red light cameras installed.

http://www.dailysouthtown.com/news/1...WS8-15.article

There's an article about it.

 

[QUOTE=trike1946]Mil1ion, I always thought it was pretty simple. You go north you get cold, you go south you get warm. I guess the world according to Trike is a little flawed. I didn't think you guys up north ever got warm weather, it was all ice and penguins. QUOTE]

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Science class grade school.

During NORMAL Climatic conditions

Spring & Fall Equinox

Summer & Winter Solstice

On December 22nd or thereabouts.....The North Hemisphere of earth starts its tilt towards the sun.....so when arriving at the spring equinox..sun above the equator)
The earth continues tilting ...so the North Hemisphere is more towards the sun until ...June 21st (summer solstice ...is the longest day of sunlight for the Northern Hemisphere and summer actually begins......
June 22nd ..... it slowly starts it tilting away from the sun Until September 21st (fall equinox sun at equator)...continuing until Dec 21st (winter solstice or ..the shortest day of the year of sunlight) for Northern Hemisphere.


Now Remembering that the Southern Hemisphere is the exact opposite
so their seasons are at a different time.

This tilting of the Earth is why.. around the equator is always the warmest for the longest amount of time.

So... going SOUTH to get warmer/hotter only counts if one is only NORTH of the Equator ..at say ....the 38th parallel

and the opposite is true if one lives in the southern hemisphere..
Like FTE's Big-F350 (Fred)

Ask him what it is like in Auzzieland ...in late June

Sidenote:
Guess what the temp at the south pole is on June 21 st.

 

There are a couple of triggers for activation to actually snap a picture of a red light runner.

A vehicle Already past the first trigger mark will not activate the 2nd.
This allows for a vehicle(s) that made an unexpected stop in the intersection during the green to continue without getting a picture taken.

It would however take a picture of someone that was parked in the crosswalk during the green and yellow and continued into the intersection after
traffic was clearing.

 

Further to post 28, By Wednesday evening it will be closing in on -20*C (daytime high) here for about 6 days.

We will see more "Red Light" violations then.

Btw, I forgot earlier to mention .......aside from Pittsburgh.........Penguins are at the South Pole.

 

Dennis, I seem to be a bit confused on a lot of things. I didn't pay much attention in school as you can tell. I guess I will rewrite the world according to Trike.But I will start watching the weather channel more and see how NJ compares to different parts of Canada. Somewhere I remember hearing about the penquin thing, but at 60 I have started to forget some things,.......... actually a lot of things. I'm going to turn the thermostat up. Just thinking about -20C chills me. I like a steady 70F or more.

 

Amen, Larry:

I've driven in the Norfolk area, and that's some scary traffic!

I always look both ways before going when the light turns green...even with a delay, there can still be vehicles running the light.

Just as rampant are stop sign runners...why is everyone in such a hurry?

 

to patatoe1:

In some congested areas they are using the cams to ticket drivers who block intersections, causing gridlock.

You're not supposed to enter an intersection until you can safely proceed through it. This applies to turning against through traffic. You should wait your turn behind the line, not in the middle of the intersection. I know it can sometimes take forever if there's no advanced turn light, but this is the law in most states.

 

With that mentality they would be giving even the city bus drivers red light tickets. There is one intersection that I have to pass through on the way home, if you are behind a bus, that is the only vehicle that makes it through the light on that cycle because the driver always fades right with a left turn signal on, hogging both lanes. Nobody moves until the light is red and the oncoming traffic is forced to stop, then the bus can complete it's left turn while the cross traffic has a green but has to wait for the bus to get out of the way.
For you people local to me it's the intersection of Roosevelt Way NE and 80th in Seattle.

 

around these parts it's expected......The one thing a person shouldn't do while they are sitting in the intersection though is turn the wheels left toward opposing traffic......just in case one is hit from behind.

I am continually phoning Calgary & Red Deer Traffic dept's asking them to modify traffic lights so they are made more efficient.