[Brenda]

I was once speeding back in Holland. The guy in front of me was doing 40 in a 50 zone (ANNOYING) so I was going to take him over. Never saw the cop on the side of the road... He clocked me at 75...

I doesn't matter what someone else does. YOU are responsible for your own actions, and if you go 80 in a 60 zone because "the guy behind you is pushing", you are still going 80. Too bad for you, ya gotta pay.

[PostFactum]

Brenda wrote:

I was once speeding back in Holland. The guy in front of me was doing 40 in a 50 zone (ANNOYING) so I was going to take him over. Never saw the cop on the side of the road... He clocked me at 75...

I doesn't matter what someone else does. YOU are responsible for your own actions, and if you go 80 in a 60 zone because "the guy behind you is pushing", you are still going 80. Too bad for you, ya gotta pay.

Once I went outeside to buy a bred and spent 2 hours at the police station, I haven't had any documents with myself

[Brenda]

PostFactum wrote:

Brenda wrote:

I was once speeding back in Holland. The guy in front of me was doing 40 in a 50 zone (ANNOYING) so I was going to take him over. Never saw the cop on the side of the road... He clocked me at 75...

I doesn't matter what someone else does. YOU are responsible for your own actions, and if you go 80 in a 60 zone because "the guy behind you is pushing", you are still going 80. Too bad for you, ya gotta pay.

Once I went outeside to buy a bred and spent 2 hours at the police station, I haven't had any documents with myself

Gotta love Eastern Europe...

[Curtman]

This sort of fits in this topic..

More than 141,000 Edmonton traffic tickets to be overturned

Quote:

Edmonton drivers who paid their speed-on-green tickets for the past 14 months can look forward to a refund in the coming months, Alberta Justice announced Monday.

All speed-on-green convictions handed out in the 14-month period from November 2009 and Jan. 14 will be overturned and refunded because of concerns over the reliability of traffic cameras at intersections. Any tickets that are currently before the courts will also be cancelled.

What is a speed-on-green ticket?

[Brenda]

My take (yeah, women's logic) a ticket for speeding through a green light caught by a camera on an intersection with traffic lights that also captures red light violations...

[Yogi]

Curtman wrote:

This sort of fits in this topic..

More than 141,000 Edmonton traffic tickets to be overturned

Quote:

Edmonton drivers who paid their speed-on-green tickets for the past 14 months can look forward to a refund in the coming months, Alberta Justice announced Monday.

All speed-on-green convictions handed out in the 14-month period from November 2009 and Jan. 14 will be overturned and refunded because of concerns over the reliability of traffic cameras at intersections. Any tickets that are currently before the courts will also be cancelled.

What is a speed-on-green ticket?

Exceeding the posted speed limit whilst going thru a green light. Same principal as photo radar. The intersections set up with these camera systems 'flash' drivers who speed up to get thru the intersection on yellow, or green, as well, of course, take pics of any vehicles going thru on red.

If you 'play them right' ( you gotta be 1st vehicle in line)you can stop prior,make sure the light has turned red 'against' you, then inch forward and the camera will take a pic of your vehicle before your plate comes into view, then you can just drive thru the intersection and no ticket! I've done this several times, late at night, when traffic is light or nil, and ya just swear that "that fuckin light must be painted red"!

[Regina]

Alberta to refund $13M in speeding fines; photo-radar network in doubt

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1881306/

[bootlegga]

Brenda wrote:

My take (yeah, women's logic) a ticket for speeding through a green light caught by a camera on an intersection with traffic lights that also captures red light violations...

Absolutely correct...give the lady a cigar!

[BeaverFever]

Regina wrote:

Alberta to refund $13M in speeding fines; photo-radar network in doubt

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/nat ... le1881306/

Yeah, but note that the article says this was due to ONE ticket that slipped through the cracks of the photo radar system in place.

If you read on:

Quote:

Each machine-generated ticket is reviewed by a city staff member. The city caught and deleted 26 false tickets before drivers received them, but the one that caught Mr. Bilodeau’s eye snuck through, said Bob Boutilier, Edmonton’s manger of transportation.

“To suggest the whole thing is not valid just because of one bad ticket, I think that’s not the right thing to say. The right thing to say is: ‘How are you going to prevent this from happening again?’ as opposed to questioning the whole camera system.” Mr. Boutilier said. “That’s the frustration – how one ticket could create so much harm.”

They just didn't have a proper program in place to monitor the technology and verify the results.

[Zipperfish]