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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
If you look up, you'll see cameras at all the major intersections on 466 and 466A. I have mixed emotions about them. Are they accurate? Do they catch the offender or tag the car that came just before or just after? What is their threshold for citing a driver? If drivers know they are there, it should fulfill its purpose of slowing traffic. But it just seems a little too much Big Brother/1984 for my taste.
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My son got two red light tickets at the same traffic light in Linden N.J. on the same day. The ticket on the highway Rte 1 & 9 was more money than the ticket he got that morning coming onto Rte 1 & 9 at Stiles St at the same light. Several points to be made. He should have stayed home from work, he would have come out ahead. Anyone seeing the video would agree that he deserved the second ticket but not the first as he had someone tailgating him. It was revealed that these cameras were nothing more than a cash grab and increased the rear end accidents at several intersections. They have been turned off. Others may kick this around and feel like it a good idea but the reality is it isn't.
I am new in the area but know that people don't like to be delayed on their daily adventures. I have downloaded The Villages GPS and find it to be fantastic but once in a while it hangs up while we are in the golf cart. I wait until I find a safe spot to pull over and do so to reboot. The majority of people ask if we are ok or if they can help...we are out of the way...the kind people who want to help get ripped verbally
by the clown's who gets upset that they were delayed a few seconds. Three times in a month. I couldn't care less but it upsets my wife. If we were not here I would get into the mix quickly...I'm trying to change, I'm going to change. Mrs. Nucky even said later that evening she was surprised I didn't go Code Red. I'm not raising children anymore..I'm going to find amusement in situations like this and just let it go!