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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Where Roving Speed Cameras Are Headed

Montgomery County Police are initiating a “corridor” approach that monitors speed throughout the length of a street, instead of a fixed location.

The next wave of automated traffic control in Montgomery County will take a different approach -- it's fluid, not fixed -- and that may mean expanded ways to catch you speeding. Roving speed cameras will patrol 18 additional locations throughout the county, moving around the length of a “corridor,” as opposed to patrolling a fixed location. There are 67 roadways in the program and for Germantown include: “When people turn on the road, they know that that road is a speed camera corridor road,” said Capt. Thomas Didone, director of the police department’s traffic division. “And instead of looking for the camera, they just respect the speed limit on the entire stretch of the road.” Portable camera units will be used to monitor the corridors, …

Steve Martin - State Farm

12:58 pm on Friday, July 20, 2012

Drive Safe, and watch out for cameras Steve Martin - State Farm Agent 301-924-4557   more ›

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