If they can't raise your taxes anymore they will get your money through alternate means.

An absolute necessity given current realities: 1. Very few obey any speed limits (local or highway) pften travelling at dangerously excessive speeds. 2. In lieu of # 1 there is not enough speed limit enforcememt due to limited local & state budgets. 3. Enforcement of our speed limits will make us all safer. Not to mention help to conserve precious dwindling oil/gas supplies while making us less dependent on foreign oil and improving our environment. Let the speeders pay for breaking our laws. Bad behavior modification is necessary to force responsible behavior on the irresponsible.

This is another money grab by the great state of Md. Just like gambling being immoral by anyone else else if you are not the state of Md. Awful funny how gambling is immoral; and will only bring the "wrong element" wherever gambling is. The little bar owner who struggles to meet expenses because all of his taxes and rents and insurances have soored through the roof, if this poor guy has a poker machine to help him meet his expenses and his taxes and fees every month makes him an immoral criminal it is not immoral for the state to do the same thing. Why is it not immoral for the state also and why does it not invite the wrong element to all the establishments who have keno and sell lottery tickets? No one has ever been able to answer that question for me, why?

Moneygrab. Just like the war on drugs. Don't you just love how speed traps always happen to be on the bottom of a hill when gravity is in play?

Definitely a money grab. How many children were injured in the past 10 years by drivers exceeding the speed limit in school zones? If this information hasn't been published (and I haven't seen it), it is a money grab. They need to justify such a program with actual statistics, and they haven't done it. Then they would need to PROVE that these devices work. They don't. Sending a person a ticket 2 weeks later will not slow anyone down. The peope who are paying attention and do slow down because of the cams are not likely to hit any pedestrians anyway.

They have not demonstrated that there is a problem, and they have not demonstrated that cameras are the solution. They are using "the children" as an excuse for this fundraiser. Educate yourselves at http://PhotoRadarScam.com

Money Grab.
At least the DC government ADMITTED these cameras are to "close the budget gap". Our legislooters don't have the nuts to admit that.

I wish these were an april fools joke - these cameas are awful.

After getting nabbed on a right on red I bought a gps red light camera detector off of amazon for $99 - works great - beeps near all the cameras on my way to work.

If the cameras are really set at 12 miles above the limit, why not have them?
Do you really think it's OK to be travelling 47+ mph in a 35 zone?

But we must think of the children!

*sarcasm*

Why not speed bumps in all school areas?
Just another Annapolis money grab as always!

I found out through experience that if you go through a red light after you stop at it and wait a few seconds the camera does not operate.

47 in a 35? It depends on the 35 zone. Studies have shown that drivers will generally drive at the speed at which they feel the most safe and comfortable to them on a particular road, regardless of the speed limit. And speed limits are generally set about 10mph lower than this "comfort zone" speed.

Most traffic enforcement is all about revenue and not public safety.

If we must then the first place they should go is the new "Lexus Lanes" on I-95.

I agree with Chris, speed bumps around school zones would be a much better deterrent. Plus, these cameras are being operated by independent contractors, no chance of misuse there.

Let's just attach cameras to everyone's head so we know who commits all the crimes. How's that for public safety?

A half mile is a big buffer zone. This is a garbage law.

More government control. Just what we need. The government screws up everything it puts ity's hands on. Speed cameras are a joke. Big brother is wathching. Next the cameras will be in your neighborhood and around your home. You won't be able to make a move without big brother watching.

Speed cameras are a blatant violation of the 6th, 8th, and 14th amendment rights. There is no due process and defendants are guilty until proven innocent. There is no way to confront a speed camera in court...

I'm worried that counties simply want this technology to generate additional revenue.

We should inform every representative that this legislation will be the litmus test to determine if they are worthy of continued service for the citizens of MD.

Can we use our legislooters as speed bumps?

Here we go again more revenue thats what it's about. How about ANNAPOLIS focus on the people and REREGULATE UTILITIES

This is with out a doubt a money grab. Speed limits are set about ten MPH below the safe speed as it is and the only people that really drive that slow shouldn't have licences. Now they want deprive you of due process by feeding everybody some crap about how the cameras don't lie.
More importantly though is that this is also a personal intrusion. Before you know it those very same cameras are going to be peeking into your house to see if you are smoking or worse around your kids.

Lets all send a message on election day if your in office now maybe you should'nt be. It seems that Maryland is truly about revenue. Just look at things like ezpass which also will be money pass. Wake up neighbors vote more wisely in the future!

Of course it is a money grab, but what is wrong with that? If it is a choice between higher taxes or this, I will take this. If it is a choice between cutting costs by cutting services, I will still take this.

The only reason people don't like this is because they want to speed. So you have two options: either obey the law and drive within the speed limit or break the law and pay a $40 fine.

I hope plenty of speeders get caught and help save the rest of us from higher taxes in the future.

I am totally for red light cameras at every intersection, but speed cameras are a joke.

It will slow people down for just the few seconds they need to so as to not get a ticket (wear/tear on car, change brakes more frequently) and then they will speed up again (using more gas).

Drivers in Maryland need to abide by better driving etiquette anyway ... the left lane is for passing, please: lead, follow or get out of the way of the car behind you that wants to go faster than you!!!

One problem is speed limits are really a violation of our 1st amendment rights. Enforcement of the state laws by the police is often regarded as harassment by citizens. In particular, if everyone on the road is maintaining a constant speed and one is pulled over. Fines are arbitrary taxes which support the courts and police force. All of which leads to disrespect of the courts, police, and laws by the very citizens they should be serving.

I would prefer if the state laws were revised to replace speed limits with recommended speeds and the police were instructed to issue more citations for reckless and negligent driving. If you speed around a school or residential neighborhoods, then that is reckless and there should be significant fines assessed. If you drive too slow in the left lane, then that is negligent or too aggressively on a highway it's reckless...

This is a money grab. If they are so concerned about public safety than the should invest in better surveillance camera’s to help catch criminals. Speeders should be caught by radar and the individual should be ticketed and receive points and all that goes with it. If it is really about safety, than why worry about a speeders insurance rate going up.

One day, maybe not in my lifetime , nut I would bet in the lifetime of my children, some a-hole legislator will draft a bill to put cameras in your home to make sure you are not smoking or anything else that the big brother does not want you to do! Mark my words, it WILL happen one day! 1964 has come and gone but the ideas have remained and wil come to fruition some day!!! Go get em O'Malley!!!

Everywhere speed cameras have been implemented the have increased revenue and not decreased speeds.
The drivers who use the routes that measure speed quickly realize where the cameras are and salow in those zones. They immediatley speed up when past them. The only persons who are fines are those who unwittingly stumble into the trap.

The People's Republic of Maryland does not care becasue it brings in revenue for the Republic.

$$$ grab, and not even a clever one. I am embarassed that my senator, Sen. Robey, is the architect of yet another encroachment on our freedom. Of course he never met a tax he didn't immediately want to raise!We are still paying his "drought tax" from years ago.

Until people wake up and realize what a complete disaster the OweMalley-Busch-Miller regime is, it isn't about to stop.

I am against speed cameras..

I have decided that when I know of a camera I will reduce my speed to less that 10 miles an hour thru the camera - hopefully I will piss off enough people behind me that we elect different people in government who are not after more $$$ - thats all this is...

I'm so against speed cameras. The regime of Martin Owe'malley and his merry band of crooks are continuing to thrust a knife through people's wallets.

I really believe the citizens of Maryland need to revolt against this