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Re: How to fight the geen/red light cams
some of you guys are idiots and need to go back to highschool and take an introduction to law class. The amount of BS floating around in this thread is crazy.
The "law act" as you call it, its called the LAW, and its what specifies what is enforced by police officers. You know when you get a ticket and they write down that little string of numbers of the law you broke....those numbers correspond to a section of the Alberta Traffic Safety Act. The police dont get to enforce rules they make up. The rules, or laws, are defined by the alberta government and are placed into the traffic safety act.
The wonderful thing about living in a democratic society, without limited internet search provisions, is the government actually allows you to look these things up and read about them.
They define things such as, if there isn't a posted speed limit what the max and min speeds are, if there's a playground or school what the default speeds are, and if you are on a road under construction, regardless of whether there are signs or not, what the default speed is.
Ignorance of a public law is not a defense for breaking it.
Now....as for this only applying to highways as you want to define them. Wrong again.
every term is clearly defined in the traffic safety act under the Definitions heading.
For example:
(p) “highway” means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trestleway or other place or any part of any of them, whether publicly or privately owned, that the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles and includes
(i) a sidewalk, including a boulevard adjacent to the sidewalk,
(ii) if a ditch lies adjacent to and parallel with the roadway, the ditch, and
(iii) if a highway right of way is contained between fences or between a fence and one side of the roadway, all the land between the fences, or all the land between the fence and the edge of the roadway, as the case may be,
but does not include a place declared by regulation not to be a highway;
So those sections of 115 i copied and pasted earlier in this thread, they basically apply to every public road in the province not just things like the deerfoot.
some of you guys are idiots and need to go back to highschool and take an introduction to law class. The amount of BS floating around in this thread is crazy.
The "law act" as you call it, its called the LAW, and its what specifies what is enforced by police officers. You know when you get a ticket and they write down that little string of numbers of the law you broke....those numbers correspond to a section of the Alberta Traffic Safety Act. The police dont get to enforce rules they make up. The rules, or laws, are defined by the alberta government and are placed into the traffic safety act.
The wonderful thing about living in a democratic society, without limited internet search provisions, is the government actually allows you to look these things up and read about them.
They define things such as, if there isn't a posted speed limit what the max and min speeds are, if there's a playground or school what the default speeds are, and if you are on a road under construction, regardless of whether there are signs or not, what the default speed is.
Ignorance of a public law is not a defense for breaking it.
Now....as for this only applying to highways as you want to define them. Wrong again.
every term is clearly defined in the traffic safety act under the Definitions heading.
For example:
(p) “highway” means any thoroughfare, street, road, trail, avenue, parkway, driveway, viaduct, lane, alley, square, bridge, causeway, trestleway or other place or any part of any of them, whether publicly or privately owned, that the public is ordinarily entitled or permitted to use for the passage or parking of vehicles and includes
(i) a sidewalk, including a boulevard adjacent to the sidewalk,
(ii) if a ditch lies adjacent to and parallel with the roadway, the ditch, and
(iii) if a highway right of way is contained between fences or between a fence and one side of the roadway, all the land between the fences, or all the land between the fence and the edge of the roadway, as the case may be,
but does not include a place declared by regulation not to be a highway;
So those sections of 115 i copied and pasted earlier in this thread, they basically apply to every public road in the province not just things like the deerfoot.
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