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Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights

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From: Shiva Nataraja
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 00:00
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On Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:45:08 -0600, Brandon Sommerville
<gti@null.net.gov> wrote:

>Shiva Nataraja wrote:
>
>>Yet local governments think it's more important to install red light
>>cameras and/or add punitive algorithms to turn lights red for speeders
>>than to fix these basic problems. 
>
>It's always easier to deal with the symptoms than to attack the
>actually problem.  After all, that would involve someone having to
>admit they were wrong...

It would also mean that they would have to give up all that revenue
from the traffic fines...
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From: del@awwww.com (Shiva Nataraja)
Subject: Re: New High-Tech Traffic Lights
Date: 1999/10/03
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