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Pawpaw wrote:

doncb wrote:It's called paying attention and being aware of what is going on around you. If the light has been red for 2 or 3 seconds and you blow through you have no excuse.

Horse hockey. I drive a 7,000 lb. diesel pickup. From 40 or 45 mph, safely stopping within 2 or 3 seconds might be possible on an absolutely perfect road surface. It ain't gonna happen on anything less that perfect conditions.

You need to slow down.

Jeff B. wrote:Not a fan either. There was an uproar here when cameras went up, then the Town responded that they were only to monitor traffic conditions and events at intersections and that they didn't have the resolution to be used as red light cameras. So, the uproar was short lived, but the cameras are now in place. Sometimes I wonder if it's simply getting us used to them and the accompanying surveillance.

Jeff B.

The ones that were at every intersection in every direction? Those replaced the induction loops that used to be embedded in the pavement to sense the presence of cars at intersections. They seem to work well enough but for whatever reason when they reconfigured 1171 @ Timbercreek and 1171 @ Kirkpatrick a few months ago they removed the camera sensors and went back to old school timers. Very frustrating. In fact the college boy FM has in charge of traffic control devices peeves me on a near daily basis.