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Posts from ‘December, 2008’

Traffic camera pranksters in our future?

Oak Ridge’s traffic camera program hasn’t started yet, but it’s never too soon to be forewarned about things that can go wrong with camera-based traffic enforcement. It seems (based on this article) that teenagers in Montgomery County, Maryland, are playing some elaborate pranks with speed-enforcement cameras. First they use a computer and printer to create [...]

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Greening Oak Ridge: A Community Forum for Shaping a Green Future

The City’s plans for a comprehensive “visioning” process got shelved, but thanks to the Environmental Quality Advisory Board “greening the city” effort, the community is soon getting a chance to engage in the kind of discussion that I was hoping that the visioning process would provide — and at next to no cost to the [...]

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