New Orleans red light cameras go live today

[RB TexLa]

NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans officials said the city's red light cameras will go live Tuesday and it won't be an April Fools' Day joke. Citations will carry $100 fines plus sizable administrative fees.

For the past month, the city has issued warning citations to drivers ignoring red lights at four intersections.

Cameras have been in use at 11 Jefferson Parish intersections for several months. Gretna has announced plans to install some cameras, and Kenner officials are considering the idea.

The system photographs cars that cross an intersection after the signal has turned red. The camera captures the license plate number, which is then matched with the vehicle's registered owner.




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It's almost 8AM, how many of these things have already been shot up?

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1. Hopefully all of them.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. "1,000 warning tickets have been issued a week" - that's some cash cow!

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When they start issuing $100.00 tickets, at that same violation rate,

that's $100 Grand a week ("plus admin fees")

That's $5.2 MILLION a year.

PLUS costs.

[KamaAina]

3. None, the citizens of New Orleans would never shoot public property

APRIL FOOL!!!!!