Speed cameras coming soon to Maryland work zones

Just a money making cash revenue source. Like these about as much as I do red light cameras. When you have computers issueing tickets there is something wrong. Cops are cops, but we don't write every violation as a ticket, these #### machines will just to generate revenue. Rookie driver, did they say how much over the limit before the zap you and send you a coupon in the mail?

 

Guess it would help if I read the whole article. Sorry for being lazy tonight!

 

I was in Phoenix this morning and the city is covered with speed cameras. Some are permanent sites and others are DPS vehicles parked along the shoulders. It seems to me a way to make revenue without having to pay a human to collect that revenue. I'm sure those permanent speed traps cost a chunk of change to buy and install. I wonder how many citations it takes to pay for one camera site. They were installing more permanent sites this morning on the west side of town on I-10.
I remember reading in Car and Driver a couple years ago that a Hyundai Sonata was ticketed by one of those cameras for going 147mph on the freeway. Anyone familiar with a Sonata would know that just isn't likely, especially since it was a rental car, not some suped up rice burner.

 

i'd like to see some installed at those merge points where people go around and into the berm to save themselfs 12 seconds.

 

I think they should post snipers with high-powered rifles in the construction zones...

I had some rocket scientist pass me in the construction zone in Montgomery going so fast that I cringed, waiting for the sonic boom. If I was a cop, I guess I'd be on CNN for giving that guy a beating that'd make the Rodney King incident look like a spanking on the hand.