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New Orleans' red-light cameras getting set for speeders
Published Thursday, June 19, 2008
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans' red-light cameras are getting set for speeders.
Public Works Director Robert Mendoza says that, starting Monday, cameras at four intersections will check for anyone driving at least nine miles an hour above the posted speed limit.
Depending on the speed, fines will range from $40 to $200, plus a $35 enforcement fee.
The cameras come with the ability to record speed, but the city turned on only the red-light feature at first.
Mendoza says the cameras provided evidence for 8,451 red-light tickets from April 1 through June 16.
The city plans to add cameras at five more intersections around the end of the month. Those will be used at first only for drivers who go through red lights.
Comments
Posted by vidalia1 (anonymous) on June 19, 2008 at 6:25 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Be careful, those devices have been proven to not always work properly....Hope the installer is really knowledgeable
There have been many problems from those red light ticket givers.I would avoid them untill they are absolutely
accurate.
Posted by OldGrandDad (anonymous) on June 19, 2008 at 8:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)
What's the fine for shooting one out?
Posted by EnKiKur (anonymous) on June 20, 2008 at 4:13 a.m. (Suggest removal)
One in Mandeville wrote 2200 redlight tickets in the first week. It was even giving tickets to people who had already cleared the intersection.
Posted by redusmfan (anonymous) on June 21, 2008 at 11:16 a.m. (Suggest removal)
You can shoot it out as long as you do not do it from a car....it will get your tag number if you do. Just walk up to it and shoot it out...or climb the pole and spray it with black paint.
Posted by padlock (anonymous) on June 22, 2008 at 9:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
They started this same thing in Minnesota, and guess what it is illegal, the courts threw out all the cases and the great citzens of Minnesota were REIMBURSED.
What the law will do to earn a dollar is unbelievable. Why don't they make the officers pay fines for parking in handicap and no parking zones????
I say citizens of New Orleans fight for your rights to have this thing removed, or better yet challenge the tickets.
The courts obviously didn't do any research on this project.
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