Recently, my office received complaints from neighbors who were concerned that some red light cameras were malfunctioning and inadvertantly giving out tickets to people who were turning right on red. Turns out, they were turning a little too fast...
We did a little digging and found that the Baltimore City Department of Transportation (DoT) had announced a new initiative back in February to "put pedestrians first by making our intersections safe and enforcing negligent driving behavior."
This public safety campaign is designed to promote safe driving habits in our neighborhoods by ticketing people who do not come to a full and complete stop at a red light before turning right on red, as required by law. The penalty for a violation is $75. Payment of the fine amount will not result in points on your driver’s license and cannot be used to increase your insurance rates.
Warning signs have been posted at Red Light Camera Enforcement locations to make motorists aware of the fact that they are approaching a Red Light Camera Safety intersection. The actual locations of the cameras are listed on DoT's website here.
“Our goal is to modify the behavior of negligent drivers in the city through education, engineering and enforcement,” said Al Foxx, Director of the Department of Transportation. “Unfortunately, many drivers never come to acomplete stop when making a right turn on red causing pedestrian and vehicular accidents,” he said.
For the complete February 11, 2009 press release, click here.
We did a little digging and found that the Baltimore City Department of Transportation (DoT) had announced a new initiative back in February to "put pedestrians first by making our intersections safe and enforcing negligent driving behavior."
This public safety campaign is designed to promote safe driving habits in our neighborhoods by ticketing people who do not come to a full and complete stop at a red light before turning right on red, as required by law. The penalty for a violation is $75. Payment of the fine amount will not result in points on your driver’s license and cannot be used to increase your insurance rates.
Warning signs have been posted at Red Light Camera Enforcement locations to make motorists aware of the fact that they are approaching a Red Light Camera Safety intersection. The actual locations of the cameras are listed on DoT's website here.
“Our goal is to modify the behavior of negligent drivers in the city through education, engineering and enforcement,” said Al Foxx, Director of the Department of Transportation. “Unfortunately, many drivers never come to acomplete stop when making a right turn on red causing pedestrian and vehicular accidents,” he said.
For the complete February 11, 2009 press release, click here.
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