The 4th largest city in the country is going to vote on a photo ticketing ban. This can’t sit well with scam vendors Redflex and ATS. That list of cities is growing rapidly, but Houston, TX sticks out because it would be a dagger to the heart of the aforementioned fraud peddlers.
TheNewspaper.com covers the saga in at length in their latest article:
Also in the Lone Star State, Baytown and Port Lavaca are ready to vote on scameras. Stop Baytown Red Light Cameras turned in the needed signatures to compensate for some that were invalidated by the city. Quoted from their website,
“The Arizona camera company(ATS) gets paid a bounty of 55% of each ticket collected in return for installing the cameras for free. source; Baytown Sun 3-27-10″
If it “isn’t about the money,” ATS sure has a funny way of showing it based on that last stat.
Outside of Texas, Mukilteo, Washington has won their court battle with a front group funded by scamera companies and that Seattle suburb will be voting on a photo ticketing ban.
The great state of Ohio is next on the radar screen with the cities of Garfield Heights and South Euclid, OH having their signature count validated recently. Both city councils are going to review them.
The Cleveland Camera Removal Team is still working on their petition. They are shooting for a special election in February 2011.
CameraFRAUD volunteers will be taking on Paradise Valley, where the scam started almost 25 years ago. Watching these other cities jump on the scamera-ban bandwagon should be plenty of motivation to up our own efforts.
Tonight’s Mission: Paradise Regained.
They are quaking in their boots. The scam is about to end all across the country.
They definitely are. Acts of sheer desperation are next.
I wouldn’t underestimate them. They aren’t going to go quietly into the night.
One of the “big two” scam cam companies recently had an internal memo in sales regarding market saturation. It seems they’re having to go to smaller and smaller municipalities to pitch the cams because they’ve already pitched to all the big boys.
International is going to be where its at, in places like the UAE.
The word is getting out faster than it was before.
I get what you’re saying though.
I’ve read that Dubai’s freeways are lined with photo enforcement cameras but you can’t find a real cop anywhere…
They’ll also eventually focus more on security and constant surveillance for various levels of government vs. just traffic enforcement – if they can get the tech to where it makes money doing so… Give them time – they’ll figure out how to make money doing an even better Big Brother imitation.
Isn’t this why London with all it’s CCTV cams has more crimes unsolved now than ever?
Coming to NYC!!
Peoria Man Challenges Red-Light Ticket – Video Also
http://www.kpho.com/news/24572947/detail.html#
Will this affect toll camera citations?
Seriously, what is it with red light cameras and immigration?
Okay, so… my question is…
What the F** was that?!
Gay underage boys who are friends of Barney Frank are running red lights and fleeing the scene? Is this Redflex’s new promotional video?
Lol. Yep, Homeland Security has their eye in the sky satellite hooked up to these cameras. No one is free to come and go anymore.
Carl seel ought to love this one!