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  Results solid for traffic cameras
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Last EditedCBlock941  Oct 10, 2006 08:51am
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CategoryProposed Legislation
News DateTuesday, October 10, 2006 02:50:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionMELBOURNE - If you ran the westbound red light at Hibiscus and Airport boulevards earlier this year, you unwittingly bolstered a campaign to legalize traffic-camera ticketing across Florida.

Peek Traffic installed the camera late last fall free of charge, then began filming -- and counting -- drivers who disobeyed red lights. There are signs at the intersection reading, "Red Light Photo Test Site."

Behind the scenes, the Palmetto corporation began compiling a database of statistics from traffic devices in Melbourne, Orlando, Sarasota County and Manatee County.

The result? A 50-page "pilot study" touting the cameras' effectiveness, packed with colorful graphs and charts, was issued in late July. Copies of the study will be distributed to members of Florida's House and Senate this fall for the upcoming legislative session, spokeswoman Lori Mellman said.
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