Gentle warning.

[Clay]

With the summer months coming on and jeepers heading up North to wheel, this warning comes in handy.

If you travel through Payson up Highway 260 about 5 miles east of Payson as you drop down into Star Valley there are photo radar cameras. You're on them before you know it. And, conversely, coming down from Forest Lakes as you drop down into Star Valley right across from the Ford dealership - same thing. In both cases you're going downhill, and its upon you before you know it.

[mingoglia]

Thanks for the warning. I didn't realize there were even cameras there? When did they install them? I suppose I haven't been through there in awhile.

Mike

[Cronoh]

Yeah, my brother got flashed on our way up to sunrise in the winter :[

[Desert 4x4]

I seen them there a couple of weeks ago......My brother warned me about it....Good thing......

[lancetkenyon]

Thanks, a lot of us go up frequently to run the Draw and Crushers.

[NVRSTUKXJ]

do they have the mandatory "photo enforcement zone" signs posted prior to the area?????

[Markos]

From what I recall, there are signs. I almost got nabbed on my first trip to Sunrise. They are on a hill, in an area that you'd never expect to see photo radar. Watch out!

[Bingo2008]

I was just up there Saturday and yes they are still there, and I didnt see any signs but I was stuck behind a Big Rig....Some Crotch Rocket when Flying by and thats when I noticed them....kinda hard to miss I guess when they are going off...

Alex Bingochea
HM3/USN/FMF-USMC (Former)
Purple Heart Recipient

Once to every man and nation, Comes the moment to decide, In the strife of Truth or Falsehood, For the good or evil side, Then, it is the brave man chooses, While the coward stands aside.-James Russell Lowell

God and the Soldier we adore, In time of danger, not before. The danger passed and all things righted, God is forgotten and the Soldier slighted. ~Rudyard Kipling

[Blkruby]

Now remember there for speed control not for making MONEY.

[lancetkenyon]

Now remember there for speed control not for making MONEY.

Keep telling yourself that Cliff.:osama:

[gotpower]

How hard would it be to steal one of these??? I'm thinking of converting it into a mobile photo passport vending machine and locating it at the border. :)

[KennethS]

Apparently there are a bunch of those in Great Britain, and the folks really do not like them. I saw a few web sites with photos of how folks had vandalized the cameras: spray painting over the camera window, plastering bumper stickers over camera or radar gun windows, and just plain old bashing the heck out of them.

Now there is an organized group, Motorists Against Detection ( http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm ), and they have taken out 700 speed cameras so far:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/07/transport.ukcrime

I wonder why no one here has done something similar? With all the folks with paintball guns it would be really simple to splatter the camera window while passing by.

[weasel_ugs]

There is also one before you enter Prescott Valley on highway 69, and there are signs posted but too late to slow down. Don

[David C]

Apparently there are a bunch of those in Great Britain, and the folks really do not like them. I saw a few web sites with photos of how folks had vandalized the cameras: spray painting over the camera window, plastering bumper stickers over camera or radar gun windows, and just plain old bashing the heck out of them.

Now there is an organized group, Motorists Against Detection ( http://www.speedcam.co.uk/welcome.htm ), and they have taken out 700 speed cameras so far:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/sep/07/transport.ukcrime

I wonder why no one here has done something similar? With all the folks with paintball guns it would be really simple to splatter the camera window while passing by.

Unfortunately, in this society, one of your fellow citizens who you just helped by disabling the camera would be all too happy to turn you in. Some people actually believe these cameras make us safer (keep watching the TV, there). Yeah, I remember all the deaths and massive property losses that plagued our roads before the cameras were installed.:rolleyes:

[Bill Ritter]

I'm surprised the camera's aren't used for target practice by paintballers.

[Brokaw1]

With the summer months coming on and jeepers heading up North to wheel, this warning comes in handy.

If you travel through Payson up Highway 260 about 5 miles east of Payson as you drop down into Star Valley there are photo radar cameras. You're on them before you know it. And, conversely, coming down from Forest Lakes as you drop down into Star Valley right across from the Ford dealership - same thing. In both cases you're going downhill, and its upon you before you know it.

Yeah and folks here call my home state of California a communist state! Welcome to Arizona where you can ride a motorcycle without a helmet but you damn sure can't speed cause our photo radars are all over. Not a single photo radar in CA as the laws don't allow that. They do have redlight cameras but they are only a civil violation and don't count on your insurance.

[Henthorn]

My friend just moved to england (in the military) and one of the favorite past times of the locals is to loop a tractor tire around the pole the camera is on and light it on fire!

Another one of the tricks is to steal the film out of them (most of them use film over there)

[Papa Mo]

Thanks for the heads up Clay!!