In a message dated 4/2/01 12:26:51 AM Mountain Daylight Time, steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk writes:

Una wrote:

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That's actually what worries me the most about it - the way we alter our behaviour. In time, we won't need the cameras, just the belief that they'

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Steve:

That's fine by me, as long as the behaviour alteration is "good". Since we're on about speeding, an example: a York newspaper quoted motorists who were complaining about plans to use unmarked police cars to catch motorists who were speeding; the police were being seen as "unfair" by these motorists.

You should have heard the whining about speed traps when the jurisdictions around Denver starting using photo-radar! The reactionary nitwit contingent in the legislature actually managed to push through regulations that limited the amount of the fines that could be imposed and prohibited the tickets from counting against the driver on their license renewal. Interestingly, the howling about it seems to have finally stopped since the photo radar has been redirected to slowing down traffic in residential neighborhoods instead of camping out on the freeways.

Personally, I'd like the cameras to be mandatory at stoplights -- there are WAY too many pinheads around who seem to think that red lights don't apply to *them*.

Nina