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[foogie]

Is this like an automated ticket? Wow, that's insane..
Canada??

its one where it takes a photo and then you get the ticket in the mail.

how the hell are you supposed to drive then if you cant go through green lights?

lol. you can drive through them, silly... its something about accellerating while going through it they ticket for. I have no clue how it works; because i don;t drive downtown at all.

[Evan]

I got my one and only ticket last year. It was a "fix-it-ticket" for not having a front license plate. Freaking cops here...nothing better to do.

[Sweeney]

accelerating while going through... doesnt that mean driving through the green light?

No... you could be going at a constant speed, or decelerating.

[zpoy]

No... you could be going at a constant speed, or decelerating.

Either way, its a stupid reason to give someone a ticket.

[zpoy]

Doesn't make sense when you consider that if you're stopped on a red, how exactly do you accelerate when it changes to green without a ticket?
Or is that the exception to the rule? If so, that's too complex and more than a bit ridiculous. Road rules need to be as simple as possible so people of any intelligence can remember and apply them.

Sure if you're coming up to a set of lights and it's green, you shouldn't speed up, as it implies you're trying to avoid hitting an orange light.
Here you can get orange light tickets if it's clear that you could have slowed down but instead didn't and made it through the light before it was red. But cops don't tend to do it until you've really made a bad call, and should have stopped.

You have orange lights? Are they bright orange because I would think if they were darker it might look kinda red. I think bright purple would stand out better than red though.

[Tyler.]

It's bright I guess. They are clearly orange. Colour blind people do it by where the light is coming from so it's not that hard to figure out.

Orange means that if it's safe to do so, slow down and stop as it's about to change to red.

We use yellow

[Black Flame]

Law enforcement here is just moderate really. Not too lax, not too strict. There is this one road though near my house where the police are REALLY strict. The speed limit on that road is 30mph (coming off a 40mph road) and if you even go 31mph, they'll pull you over. They literally just sit there, watching every car pass by. They catch the most people, or course, when drivers are slowing down from 40 to 30. It's really only that road too.

I like the police here overall, but I just really don't understand why THAT road needs to be watched every single day. There's honestly nothing special about it.

[Cory]

Law enforcement here is just moderate really. Not too lax, not too strict. There is this one road though near my house where the police are REALLY strict. The speed limit on that road is 30mph (coming off a 40mph road) and if you even go 31mph, they'll pull you over. They literally just sit there, watching every car pass by. They catch the most people, or course, when drivers are slowing down from 40 to 30. It's really only that road too.

I like the police here overall, but I just really don't understand why THAT road needs to be watched every single day. There's honestly nothing special about it.

Gulf breeze is like that here. It's mainly a retirement county, but has lots of beaches and shit , so a lot of people go there during the summer. The speed limit threw the whole county ( one main road ) is 30 mph and people have been known to get tickets for going 31 MPH. It's funny driving threw there though. You literally hit the county limit and see people go from 30 mph to 50 mph within a 20 yard stretch of road.