Locating Mobile Speed Cameras
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15 years
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It seems the small towns of the Eastern Shore of Maryland (and probably most of the western shore too) have fallen in love with mobile speed cameras, and the money they generate. The state legislature has OK'd speed cameras for any school zone, and the cameras are to be located anywhere within a mile of the school. For most of these towns, that means almost anywhere in the town. It is very difficult to know where they are on any given day. They can even be found on lanes with 15mph speed limits. These towns have become virtual speed traps.
In my immediate area these towns include Denton, Ridgely, Federalsburg, Easton, Trappe, Cambridge, and Centreville.
If the mobile speed cameras were listed in a special separate file, and located either at the schools or town center, then maybe one could put a wide area alert (2-mile radius for example) for the POI to give an adequate warning.
Any othr ideas?
Mobile cams
The fact they are mobile makes any POI useless. Unless you use a TourGuide style of alert to cover the town, you're hooped. But, that type of alert would drive you crazy, always going off.
Staying alert is the best defense.
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For the Traveler
The fact they are mobile makes any POI useless. Unless you use a TourGuide style of alert to cover the town, you're hooped. But, that type of alert would drive you crazy, always going off.
Staying alert is the best defense.
Agreed, alertness is best defense, but was thinking of folks who pass through these towns and are unfamiliar with the existance of the speed cameras.
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Along the route
Agreed, alertness is best defense, but was thinking of folks who pass through these towns and are unfamiliar with the existance of the speed cameras.
Ok - I see some merit to knowing that there are towns along my intended route that have mobile speed cameras.
I think back to the days when I would go get an AAA TripTic and they would mark on the map pages where I was to expect road construction.