We have these things springing up daily and the State has been installing them all over the freeways. They have over-reached and turned people against them. There are some stretches of freeway in town here now that have them ever 3 miles on the dot.
From theArizona Republic:
It seems like you can't drive anywhere these days without being under the watchful lens of a speed or red-light enforcement camera.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety's cameras snapped more than 40,000 speeders on Valley freeways within the first two months of a speed-enforcement camera program that began Sept. 26.
DPS' cameras - about 60 so far - are the latest crop of automated traffic-enforcement devices to hit Arizona. Valley cities including Phoenix, Mesa, Chandler, Tempe, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria and Avondale use cameras to cite drivers for running red lights and speeding. Some are also zeroing in on illegal turns.
Growing public opposition has decried the program as being little more than a cash cow for the state, despite law enforcement claims that cameras increase driver safety and reduce collision rates.
Two Valley businessmen recently began an effort to put a measure on the November 2010 ballot that would ban tickets from speed-enforcement cameras unless the driver is caught exceeding the speed limit by 20 miles or more. To qualify, they need to gather 153,365 voter signatures to by July 1, 2010.
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