Traffic Cameras

By Johnny Z • January 5, 2007

Here’s an excerpt from an email from a friend:

Don’t know if you’ve heard but they’ve put up cameras at a lot of intersections recently in an attempt to catch those who run red lights. Or in some places, turn right on red lights. You can see the cameras all over Taoyuan. If your scooter is registered, it just snaps a picture and mails the fine to your house. The very first day they put up the cameras, they issued 21,000 tickets. I’ve heard that the tickets are over $5,000 NT. So if your scooter is registered in your name, maybe you should obey the traffic rules from now on.

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Johnny Z

I am a cultural geographer by nature, and now a photographer, videographer, musician, webmaster, father, and also an English teacher.

4 Responses to “ Traffic Cameras ”

Turkey Jan 6th, 2007 at 3:46

BS - You can see a traffic camera a mile a way. It looks like a big box aiming down at the cars. If you see smaller ones facing all different directions on the poles in the intersections, it’s just cctv and records stuff, It can’t tell if you’ve done something wrong and mails you a pic. those cams are more for accidents review and shots taken at the Pres when he drives through town.

Or no.
mild seven Jan 6th, 2007 at 14:19

A Taipei Times article here suggests that it isn’t that obvious man.
traffic school Mar 9th, 2007 at 21:31

Traffic cameras certainly work… it just depends on where you live!

I have a friend who live over in Australia and they’ve had “red light cameras” for well over 10 years.

They are on freeways, roads and intersections. They don’t make the states just millions… the revenue combined would be in the hundreds of millions for the whole nation.

And considering the size of Australia’s population, imagine the money raised if implemented here!

Regards, Travis.
turkey Mar 14th, 2007 at 9:09

Yeah they have red light cameras all over the place here.

I’ve gotten a couple in the mail. It keeps me from running them now though

Poop.