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Old 11-19-2013, 07:03 PM
 
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Baltimore moving to end latest speed camera contract - baltimoresun.com
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Old 11-20-2013, 05:22 PM
 
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No, I didn't! I still will be mindful of their presence. I bet that they may "spontaneously" turn back on....those tickets are expensive.

Thanks for letting me know!
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Old 11-22-2013, 11:35 AM
 
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Yes sir.. and so do most of the people in Baltimore.. Prior to the very public suspension of the program.. cars would screech to a hault before the stop bar at most Baltimore intersections on a yellow light.. now they blow through even on the red... the speed boxes on the side of the road.. same thing.. people would brake and creep by them.. now.. no one cares..

I have to say.. I think this is a revenue strategy by the City.. How? Easy..speed camera revenue was dropping because everyone knew where they were, slowed down, and/or avoided them entirely...Aside from the software issue.. its in the City's interest to delay it since as humans we will forget.. Once they come back on line.. there will be a windfall of cash as people will be fined several times before it takes note in their noggin that the cameras are WORKING
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Old 01-28-2014, 08:15 AM
 
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Updated: Thursday, January 23 2014, 10:25 PM EST A secret audit of the city’s speed camera program commissioned last year revealed the system was more error prone than city officials were willing to admit. In February 2013 city officials used $268,000 of taxpayer funds to pay a consulting firm called URS. The firm was tasked with studying the performance of the city’s former camera enforcement vendor, Xerox. FOX45 obtained a copy of the audit of 2012 data, conducted in 2013, that tested dozen of cameras across the city. It found 10% of the tickets issued were erroneous, with some locations notching an error rate of over 50%. The rate of bogus citations jibes
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this is what ticks me off about this mayor,they owe taxpayers a cash refund and the mayor refuses to pay us
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Old 01-28-2014, 08:16 AM
 
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Updated: Thursday, January 23 2014, 10:25 PM EST A secret audit of the city’s speed camera program commissioned last year revealed the system was more error prone than city officials were willing to admit. In February 2013 city officials used $268,000 of taxpayer funds to pay a consulting firm called URS. The firm was tasked with studying the performance of the city’s former camera enforcement vendor, Xerox. FOX45 obtained a copy of the audit of 2012 data, conducted in 2013, that tested dozen of cameras across the city. It found 10% of the tickets issued were erroneous, with some locations notching an error rate of over 50%. The rate of bogus citations jibes
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Old 01-28-2014, 12:29 PM
 
Location: Gardenville
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Updated: Thursday, January 23 2014, 10:25 PM EST A secret audit of the city’s speed camera program commissioned last year revealed the system was more error prone than city officials were willing to admit. In February 2013 city officials used $268,000 of taxpayer funds to pay a consulting firm called URS. The firm was tasked with studying the performance of the city’s former camera enforcement vendor, Xerox. FOX45 obtained a copy of the audit of 2012 data, conducted in 2013, that tested dozen of cameras across the city. It found 10% of the tickets issued were erroneous, with some locations notching an error rate of over 50%. The rate of bogus citations jibes
speedcamerasbaltimorescam.renthandy

this is what ticks me off about this mayor,they owe taxpayers a cash refund and the mayor refuses to pay us
Geez, Bobby Curran looks drunker than normal in this brief interview, not as pissed off as he says he is, and less than convincing when he suggests that refunds may be available to those ticketed wrongly.
Years ago his brother Mike used to live right around the corner from us on Echodale. We haven't seen a snow plow or salt truck in our neighborhood since he moved.* Go figure...

* Yeah, I was being generous with "moved." Driving drunk, passed out and ran through an apartment complex parking lot into the side of a building.

Last edited by B.K.; 01-28-2014 at 12:57 PM.. Reason: Forgot about good ol' Mike.
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