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Cayetano Changes Stance On Traffic Cams

Legislature Must Make Changes To Law

POSTED: 10:03 a.m. HST January 29, 2002
UPDATED: 10:28 a.m. HST January 29, 2002

Gov. Ben Cayetano changed his stance on whether photo enforcement tickets should show up on your driving record or affect insurance rates.

"I think that given the public uproar that at this particular point it shouldn't count, but it's a call for the Legislature," Cayetano said.

In other cities, the company that runs the program found the public likes the system better if tickets don't show up on a driver's record.

Instead, tickets would be reduced to nonmoving violations, similar to parking tickets.

The state Department of Transportation has supported that idea since the program was unveiled late last year.

Some legislators said they believe the system should not be changed.

"The deterence of this ticket -- you have to face the consequence and that is what's going to stop people from speeding," Sen. Cal Kawamoto, chairman of the Senate Transportation committee, said last month.

Cayetano said he wants the traffic vans to avoid areas where speed limits change and to monitor speeding areas.

"I think the one thing that we're going to do for sure is get it out to the areas where there have been a lot of fatalities and excessive speeding areas like Farrington Highway out in Maile," he said.

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