{"id":262802734,"date":"2013-04-30T16:45:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262802734"},"modified":"2013-04-30T16:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:45:34","slug":"instead-of-tickets-turn-lights-red-for-speeders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262802734","title":{"rendered":"Instead of tickets, turn lights red for speeders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: An interesting idea but I still like the speed camera lottery better (Ref: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20101223194142460\">https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20101223194142460<\/a> )]<br \/>\n******************************************************************************************<br \/>\nby Ben Ross, Greater Greater Washington<br \/>\nOpponents of speed cameras often insist that they don&#8217;t want drivers to speed\u2014what they object to is the revenue-raising function of the cameras and their invasion of privacy. There may be a way to give these critics what they say they want, at least on some roads, while curbing excess speed more effectively.<br \/>\nHow about wiring radars to turn the next traffic light red whenever a speeder passes? Instead of getting a ticket in the mail, a speeder would just get a red light. With the right settings, this would slow down all speeders\u2014including those who speed by less than 12 mph.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/18476\/instead-of-tickets-turn-lights-red-for-speeders\/\">https:\/\/greatergreaterwashington.org\/post\/18476\/instead-of-tickets-turn-lights-red-for-speeders\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[B&#8217; Spokes: An interesting idea but I still like the speed camera lottery better (Ref: https:\/\/www.baltimorespokes.org\/article.php?story=20101223194142460 )] ****************************************************************************************** by Ben Ross, Greater Greater Washington Opponents of speed cameras often insist that they don&#8217;t want drivers to speed\u2014what they object to is the revenue-raising function of the cameras and their invasion of privacy. There may be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=262802734\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Instead of tickets, turn lights red for speeders&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262802734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262802734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262802734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262802734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262802734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262802734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262802734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}