Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Red Light Cameras

Sioux City has finally had the forward and proactive thinking in joining other communities to make the light controlled intersections safer by installing red light cameras. Right now only a handful of intersections have the cameras, hopefully with more coming in the future. Some fo these intersections I ride or have ridden through on my bike. I do not remember all of the current intersections that have the cameras but the ones I do know abotu and have ridden bike through are; Singing Hills Blvd and the I-29 interchange for the I-29 southbound, Outer Drive and Cheyenne Blvd and South Lakeport and Sgt. Rd. I have had jack ass cagers run a red light as I was crossing through each one of these intersections on my bike on the green light, almost hitting me. This will hopefully help keep this under control and put some fear in people preventing them from running red lights. From what I understand if someone is in the intersection when the light turns green and it then turns red, or of they are making a legal right turn on red they will not get a citation.

Here are the news stories.;
Sioux City fine-tuning red light cameras
Public hearing today on red light cameras
Red light cameras activate Thursday
Red light cameras up and running in Sioux City
Questions answered on red light cameras
Warning period starts today for Red Light cameras

1 comments:

Benjamin Wright said...

A voter referendum to ban red-light cameras is advancing to the ballot in College Station, Texas. --Ben

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