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SPEED CAMERAS: "... A high-tech game of Three-card Monty.... It is a scam the motorist cannot win" * USA
* Ohio - Judge Says Speed Cameras Are "A Scam"
Elmwood Place,OH,USA -The Car Connection, by Richard Read -Mar 13, 2013: -- Critics of traffic cameras have something to celebrate: a judge in Ohio has declared the devices "a scam" and insisted that one tiny town must turn them off... Judge, Robert Ruehlman, heard arguments about the installation of speed cameras in the town of Elmwood Place... Plaintiffs charged that the $105 speeding tickets doled out by the camera system's operator, Maryland-based Optotraffic LLC, have raised $1.5 million in under nine months. That's an awful lot, considering that the Cincinnati suburb of Elmwood Place is home to just 2,000 residents. By our simple math, Optotraffic had to dole out over 14,000 tickets to reach that total -- more than 1,500 per month... The lawyer for the plaintiffs, Mike Allen, also pointed out that Elmwood Place never installed the roadway signage that's required to accompany such cameras. And he noted that if the citizens of Elmwood Place wanted to protest their citation, they had to request an administrative hearing, which carried a $25 service fee... The defense argued that the money raised by the traffic cams was to enhance safety and slow speeders, not to line the city's coffers. And of course, traffic cams are found elsewhere in Ohio: they're used in 13 other districts throughout the state... Judge Ruehlman's decision was unequivocal. He called the speed camera system in Elmwood Place "a high-tech game of Three-card Monty.... It is a scam the motorist cannot win." Between the camera enforcement, the lack of proper signage, and the fees for administrative hearings, Ruehlman declared that the town of Elmwood Place had violated drivers' due-process rights...
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