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Red-Light Cameras Go Nuts in Vista
Gov. Brown just signed a bill restricting red light cameras, making it illegal to install them to create income and to make it easier to fight some tickets. I do not have all the details but this is sorely needed. These cameras, in my opinion, are an outrage. Most of the tickets are given out to drivers who make "rolling turns", mostly to the right. The fee is over $400, before one goes to court, traffic school, or chooses to hire an attorney. I was given one in Vista, at Sycamore and Shadowridge, only a 3-way intersection, for a rolling-right violation. This was my second ticket in over seventy years of driving and the initial penalty was $436. I went to court, which was a mistake, as it reminded me of the Nazi Courts I knew of when I was in the Army in Germany in 1945. There was absolutely no consideration from the "commissioner", who simply handed out the verdicts, all guilty. This whole experience has cost me over $1000, because in my perhaps foolish rage I did not attend the laughable traffic school, so my insurance was doubled. The experience has caused me to despise the judicial system and the legislators who passed the bills authorizing these robots installed.— October 1, 2012 10:44 p.m.