Speed Scameara alert for Montgomery, AL

If you plan on traveling near Montgomery, AL plan to stay on the expressways or bypass the town. 

The excuse is the typical http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20111116/NEWS01/111160344/Montgomery-use-automated-photographic-speeding-system "School zones, construction zones and neighborhoods that are statistically shown to be prone to speeding problems,,"

If other towns are any indication in states (like in MD), their "definition" of residential and other zones will be whatever the town "says" it is.

A good idea of what will "count" is from this editorial by a former AAA editor out of MD.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/snapshot-of-a-montgomery-county-speed-trap/2011/11/09/gIQAW3BDDN_story.html

Quote:  Rather than rethinking a speed limit that most drivers consider unreasonable, however, the county installed a camera to punish them.

So the success of this camera is predictable. That success exposes not a population of menacing drivers but a dubious speed limit and devious camera placement.

State law restricts speed cameras to residential areas and school zones. Authorities pitched the cameras as a way to protect children and people trying to cross their own streets. Yet we commonly find the cameras on busy, four- and six-lane roads, in areas that are commercial or sparsely developed.

Here’s how authorities pull this off: Our main camera in Olney points north on four-lane Georgia Avenue into the business district, catching people as they enter several blocks of gas stations, supermarkets, offices and fast-food joints. The camera’s speed zone sits in front of the second-to-last house before those businesses start. Behind the camera lay two blocks of homes. But the camera aims away from the houses; it catches people who fail to slow down for a bank.

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