Re: Speeding Alert, Denver and the rest of us.....

["Fred Munro" <munrof@isys.ca>]

    In Ontario, our previous NDP government solved this little problem by
passing a law which made the registered owner of the car responsible for
paying the speeding fines no matter who was driving. However, no points were
applied against the owner because there was no proof of who was driving. All
in all, it was a tidy little income gathering scheme - a speed tax if you
will.
    The current Ontario government pulled the photo vans off the road the
fulfill a campaign promise. AFAIK, the law is still on the books.

Fred Munro
'91 200q  261k km
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Van Ness <tom@reece.com>
To: audi-20v@emailsol.com <audi-20v@emailsol.com>; quattro@coimbra.ans.net
<quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: Speeding Alert, Denver and the rest of us.....


>I was driving my girlfriend's car in Portland, OR and got caught on film by
>one of these vans. Luckily, if someone else is driving YOUR car, you don't
>have to pay the fine. So, you can either lie and say it wasn't you driving
>(then they can check the photo and your ID) or you can just wear a
>halloween mask all the time.
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>At 2:07 PM -0700 11/3/98, Paul_Royal@idx.com wrote:
>>To:   audi-20v
>>T-mutha-f'g-riffic:
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>>Mobile Radar
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>>     Drivers who routinely speed 10 or more mph over the
>>     speed limit in Denver with impunity better think twice. Denver began
>>employing mobile radar vans
>>     yesterday that take
>>     pictures of speeders. Hundreds were caught on the first day. The
>>biggest problem the radar trappers had
>>     was finding a place to park. There were plenty of customers when they
>>they did. Three vans, loaded with
>>     cameras and radar equipment, fanned out across the city in what was
>>the first full day for Denver's photo
>>     radar speed-enforcement program. The vans recorded violations for 16
>>hours in several parts of the city. In
>>     the first eight hours alone, 340 motorists were caught.
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