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Cameras - USA - States contemplate legality, effectiveness of red light cameras
Minneapolis,USA -Minneapolis Star Tribune -10 Aug 2005: -- At least two states are looking into whether Big Brother’s watchful eye is enough to issue a traffic ticket... In Minneapolis, a city where 16 red light cameras were installed at 12 intersections as a pilot program, only about 40 percent of drivers caught by the cameras were actually issued tickets... About 11,500 drivers were caught on film between July 7 – a month after the cameras were installed and the first day tickets began being issued – and Aug. 6. But due to technical problems with the cameras such as blocked views from tree branches and larger vehicles, and legal right turns, only about 4,500 drivers were issued tickets...
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