[Fwd: Photo Radar]

[Karen Bretz <kbretz@alaska.net>]

Frank,  

We just got rid of photo radar in the largest city in the Last Frontier. 
 The program was contracted out to a private company that was taking 
quite a cut of the bucks they brought in through tickets.  Incredibly 
controversial - I think I remember reading in the paper that the poor 
dudes who worked for this company were threatened with bodily harm.  

At any rate, I think the death knell for the program was that the guys 
writing up the tickets were neither police officers nor always 
monitoring the machines.  

The thing that stuck in my mind is that when some of these tickets found 
themselves into traffic court, to prove that the photo radar devices 
were reliable the Municipality of Anchorage put on the stand 
representatives of the company operating the contract.  Like duh!!!

If you are interested in more, what would be most helpful to you are the 
written decisions.  If you want, I can try to get those to you.

Best, Karen

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• To: "audi-s-cars" <audi-s-cars@emailsol.com>, "Audi quattro list" <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
• Subject: Photo Radar
• From: "Frank Amoroso" <famoroso@sprintmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 21:09:11 -0700
• Sender: owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net

Well Boulder has started a 9 month photo radar pilot program. Any BTDT's on
combating this decidedly un-American convention? At least give me chance to
talk my way out of it, mano a mano, or in this case mouth to mouth.

Since Boulder's lovely city council is not giving me this opportunity they
are forcing me to fight the high tech battle. So who has suggestions for me.
I've removed the front plate for aesthetic reasons already. What about plate
covers that optically block photos?

Let me know what you think. I will not be doing 105 in a 35, but I have, on
occasion, done 45 in a 35 and I don't really feel like getting busted for
it.

Frank--

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