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A task force studying Baltimore's troubled speed camera program will urge the city to increase oversight of the process, change the way camera sites are chosen and create a new speed camera website containing maps and other information for the public. - Baltimore transportation officials say the city's new speed cameras won't be susceptible to the errors that have plagued the city's previous cameras. But radar experts say it's not that simple. They predict that the new cameras will reduce — but not eliminate — errors like erroneous speed readings.
- Members of Baltimore's state legislative delegation chastised city transportation officials Friday for problems with the city's speed cameras as the General Assembly prepares to take up several bills meant to reform automated enforcement in the city and across Maryland.
- Baltimore police officials said Thursday the department is doubling to 25 the number of officers available to review speed camera tickets — one of several moves intended to help prevent the issuance of erroneous citations, which has cast a cloud over the city's program in recent months.
- Baltimore Co., Howard Co. and SHA don't provide specific time evidence for motorists to fact-check
- Speed cameras are right most of the time, and for Baltimore that's good enough
- Xerox to institute new 'reasonableness' test to weed out problem tickets
- Speed cameras give some drivers more than 100 tickets
- Automated cameras nail motorists for millions of dollars, but the effectiveness – and the evidence – has some in doubt
- Though Tuesday night marked the first Orioles baseball game since a burst water main closed a portion of Light Street just north of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, game-day traffic didn't seem to cause major delays along the already strained downtown roadways, officials and fans said.
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- JFX lanes to close overnight to gauge extent of damage
- Make plans for commuting downtown during JFX lane closures
- One lane in each direction of the Jones Falls Expressway near 29th Street will be shut down on Friday evening while crews make emergency repairs to clogged and collapsed drainage pipes.
- Revelers will need to enter by one of nine access points, but won't be subjected to metal detectors or other security measures, city officials say
- Baltimore's six-lane Main Street, the JFX, turns 50 on Friday.
- The city's first venture into Indy Car street racing will tie up traffic for much of a week and disrupt transit patterns for at least five days as the city turns some of its busiest downtown streets into a speedway.
