A blogger notes wryly that Taneytown is considering the installation of speed cameras "EXACTLY" when it's in the red, but says the city may want to put the breaks on that plan.
An excerpt from the blog posting reads:
The folks out in Taneytown, Maryland, may well want to consider Baltimore
and Chicago's troubles with speed cameras
, because they're planning to be next in.
The mayor of Tareyton, James L. McCarron Jr, is looking at getting the cameras in following a new state law allowing their use in school zones, calling it a "good idea" and "something (they) should truly consider".
Meanwhile, the city council wasn't so convinced (perhaps they HAD talked to Baltimore first), wondering about rules and expenses. McCarron deferred to the October council meeting to address those concerns.
Interestingly, this comes at right about the same time that a hole
in the city's budget to the tune of just shy of three hundred grand was
discovered by City Manager James Schumacher, and now Taneytown is left
to consider a debt policy.
Read the entire posting here.