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Sheriff urges Allegany County to revisit ban on speed cameras, cites Route 51 dangers
Summary
Sheriff Robertson asked commissioners to consider reversing a local ban on speed-camera enforcement and pursue legislation to permit cameras off school zones, citing safety concerns and difficulty making safe traffic stops on Route 51.
Sheriff Robertson told Allegany County commissioners he wants the county to reconsider its ban on traffic-photo enforcement and to pursue legislative changes that would allow speed cameras in non–school-zone locations such as Route 51.
“Route 51 does not have a school down there that falls at,” Robertson said when describing the limits of existing photo-enforcement law. He told commissioners he directs deputies not to attempt traffic stops in many places on Route 51 because there are “very few locations that a traffic…
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