Red light cameras will likely be headache for McMinnville

TO THE EDITOR:

Running red lights may be a problem, but red light cameras will be an even bigger problem.

One rule proposed is after 30 days you don’t have the right for an appeal. This is after you are mailed a ticket. The ticket could be lost in the mail or delivered to the wrong address. Occasionally it happens.

Let me tell you a story about what can happen when tickets are sent in the mail. The notification I received came from the state of California.

The notification said my Delta 88 red Oldsmobile with West Virginia plates was issued a parking ticket in public parking lot No. 10 at 10:30 p.m. on a date I would have to look up.

The simple fact is I have never owned an Oldsmobile since the 1960s and have never had a West Virginia license plate. The truth of this situation is the license plate number corresponded to my Tennessee plate on a 1973 Plymouth, which I still own.

I had to try to talk with someone long distance to get this mistake resolved. If you want to get involved in pure stupidity, just get a ticket notification in the mail knowing you have never been in the state in which the ticket was issued. Then try to get it resolved without having to go to war and getting threatening letters saying there will be a warrant issued for your arrest if you don’t pay the ticket.

Drivers in McMinnville could very well deal with the same type of situation if cameras are installed here. The cameras will be a joke.

The one question McMinnville needs to answer is what does McMinnville have to offer that anyone cannot get some other place.

Miles Snider
Victor J. Young Road
Rock Island