Known camera locations listed at the end of this message.
A connection to gun rights is slim but present: Drive slowly or pay.
DPS is rolling out 100 speed-tax cameras throughout the state. The first nine were live by October 22nd (noted with asterisks below). The other locations are coming soon. I don't have the entire list, these are mostly Phoenix metro, but the whole state will get these "Big Brother Is DEFINITELY Watching You" devices. Arizona is getting 60 stationary and 40 mobile cameras for now.
A ticket for 10 miles over the speed limit will cost you $181, a lot of money according to experts. The whole nation is watching Arizona to see how it goes, before installing these moneymakers themselves. Tell your relatives.
If your speed is well in excess of the limit a criminal penalty may apply (typically a low-level misdemeanor). "Well in excess" differs depending on the road type and posted limit. In extreme or unusual cases, police may (with or without proper authority) seek to search your vehicle, and if firearms are present, have been known to use discretion in "taking custody” of them.
In other words, permanent, always on, plentiful speed cameras now pose a small threat to your right to keep and bear arms, just for traveling too fast.
This tiny problem may not matter since the entire federal government fell into the hands of anti-gun-rights Democrats on Tuesday November 4, 2008.
The plans for gun bans I've been hearing from reliable sources are absolutely monstrous. Hard news coming when I have it -- like if and when the actual bills are introduced (before extremely rapid passage).
Now that the freedom to go a little faster is being computerized out of existence: Government tax revenues are set to increase --(they call it a fine but if government ends up with your money its tax, a “speed tax." The state expects to get $2.5 million PER WEEK from the driving public according to one report); Insurance rates will increase (the insurance companies don't mind); Productivity is bound to drop; You'll be late more often (or get less done on a day); Comfort while driving will be diminished (that pit-of-stomach terror when a cop appears in the rear-view mirror is now replaced by the cold hard mechanical eye of Big Brother on the roadside).
The biggest long-range problem I see is that computer-traffic-enforcement makes sense, in a kind of way.
Enforcement of the law is now air-tight, mandatory and unavoidable, who could argue with that? So what if your constitutional right to confront your accuser is erased? The freedom to evade minor or nuisance laws is cleanly eliminated.
With that logic in place, how long before your grocery bill is connected to your health-insurance premium? Beer, liquor, red meat, salt, refined sugar, ice-cream, fast food, junk food, bacon, why let a person get away with any behavior that has an impact on, well, anything?
Why would an honest person object? Why indeed... PROTESTS the public and politicians are beginning to protest the plans, on all sorts of grounds. The idea of a foreign-owned company (Redflex is based in Australia with offices around the world) placing cameras all over the country is enough to raise nearly anyone's concern, aside from the totalitarian nature of the cameras themselves.
They say they're for speed but their complete capabilities have not been divulged. For more details, including some of the fraudulent and potentially criminal activities of authorities involved in the schemes, try this website:http://camerafraud.com/
Interstate 10
**Eastbound, I-10, 287th Ave.
**Eastbound, I-10, Miller
**Eastbound, I-10, Watson
Westbound, I-10, 91st Ave
East & West, I-10, 75th Ave
East & West, I-10, 59th Ave
Eastbound, I-10, 35th Ave
Eastbound, I-10, 43rd Ave
Eastbound, I-10, 27th Ave
East & West, I-10, 15th Ave
Eastbound, I-10, 16th Street
Westbound, I-10, Buckeye
Westbound, I-10, 24th Street
Westbound, I-10, 40th Street
US 60
Westbound, US-60, Alma School
Westbound, US-60, Mesa Drive
Westbound, US-60, Gilbert Road
Interstate - 17
Southbound, I-17, 15th Ave
Southbound, I-17, 12th Street
Northbound, I-17, Thunderbird
Northbound, I-17, Bell Road
State Route - 51
Southbound, SR-51, Thomas Road
Southbound, SR-51, Highland Pkwy.
Southbound, SR-51, Bethany Home Rd.
State Route - 101
**Southbound, SR-101, McDowell Rd
**Southbound, SR-101, Indian School
**Southbound, SR-101, Bethany Home
North & South, SR-101, Glendale Ave.
Southbound, SR-101, Olive
** Eastbound, SR-101, 75th Ave
** Eastbound, SR-101, 59th Ave
** Eastbound, SR-101, 35th Ave
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