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February 14, 2006
People Hate Traffic Cameras
From The Newspaper:
Fifteen hooded men set fire to a pair of traffic cameras in Athens, Greece at noon on Monday. Using gasoline to set the blaze, the group incinerated the two devices located at Pheidippidou and Michalakopoulou streets.
Source: Cameras torched (Ekathimerini (Greece), 2/14/2006)
I have seen a number of stories like this lately. People really seem to hate these traffic cameras and will work hard to get rid of them whether through civil disobedience. A recent Tribune article pointed out the backlash against traffic cameras in Batavia. According to their Mayor the cameras are not coming back:
"We're not going to go through all those issues again anyway ... Big Brother, the Constitution," he said. "We're going to let other communities become pioneers on this. The people here didn't want it"
Posted by rshah at February 14, 2006 07:09 AM
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