WFMZTV 69 News serves the Lehigh Valley, Berks County, and Philadelphia regions with news and family programming. IWSAsset&k=2&d=FcZlqYy8IdbnPCfyM%2FzbNmU%2BGmQwaHuQlFAhFGYiouIHhbVD3Ek8DtBhuOE1GkV0NTmvUlbfskSfkQb%2BXSY%2Biw%3D%3D' alt='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' title='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' />May 1. How an Iowa town caught 1. Minnesota speeders. Cedar Rapids has become the speed trap of the Midwest. The Grundy Register. Serving Grundy County since 1928. Thursday, May 29, 2014. Grundy Center, Iowa. TheGrundyRegister. Volume 90 Number 22. Pennsylvania marriage license fee varies by county and is valid for 60 days. Minimum age to marry is 15. No blood test. There is a 3day waiting period. Obituaries. Our policy. Local Links. Photo Gallery. The Newsleaf. Museum. Check our rates. DO YOU WANT TO SEND THE NEWSLEAF TO YOUR HOME, BUSINESS OR TO A. Sheriff Marty Fisher would like to announce that the Fayette County Sheriffs Office is now using the Iowa VINE, Victim Information Notification Everyday. GA/20130605/NEWS/306059962/AR/0/AR-306059962.jpg' alt='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' title='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' />Rusty Ramirez certified Minnesota, Florida Permit to Carry, Iowa Permit to Carry, North Dakota Permit to Carry, Wisconsin Permit to Carry, Utah Permit to Carry. Ever since installing hidden cameras on the interstate that runs through it, Iowas second largest city has been sending out tickets at an unprecedented rate, including to thousands of Minnesotans. Darrell Peterson, of Savage, got nailed twice in one day last August, when he and his wife dropped their kids off with grandparents. It was literally a half hour apart, Peterson said. If there were signs saying the technology was in place, I certainly didnt see them. Peterson received two letters from the city of Cedar Rapids on the same day. Inside each was a photo of his Hyundai Sonata and an order to pay a civil fine of 7. He thought at first the city had mistakenly sent an extra citation, but when he looked closer he saw that in one photo his kids were in the car and in the other they were not. They got us going both ways Peterson said. Mba International Business Projects Pdf on this page. Ive got no issue with the violations. If we were speeding, we were speeding. Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' title='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' />My issue is with the enforcement methodology. Iowa is the only state where cities post speed cameras on interstates, and no Iowa town has embraced photo enforcement of its expressway speed limit as wholeheartedly as Cedar Rapids, a city of 1. Twin Cities and St. Louis. But the system is under fire from Iowa transportation officials, who question the safety rationale behind it. In 2. 01. 0, Cedar Rapids installed four sets of cameras on Interstate 3. Over a 2. 0 month period in 2. Cedar Rapids cited more than 1. Minnesota. That rate of 8,0. Hennepin and Ramsey counties issue each month. Minnesota is one of 3. Minneapolis tried red light cameras in 2. Supreme Court ruled the city had no authority to install them. Interstate 3. 80 is a common route for Minnesota drivers coming and going from points southeast. The raised expressway swerves through downtown Cedar Rapids in an S shape, around the Quaker Oats factory that smells like Capn Crunch, over the Cedar River, and south to Iowa City where it crosses Interstate 8. The speed cameras, two north of the curve and two to the south, are owned and operated by Gatso USA on the citys behalf. The firm gets 2. The cameras snap a picture of any vehicle traveling at least 1. Jasper_County%2C_Iowa_Courthouse.jpg/500px-Jasper_County%2C_Iowa_Courthouse.jpg' alt='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' title='Butler County Iowa Drivers License Center' />The owner is then sent a citation. Car rental companies get a lot of mail from the city of Cedar Rapids. An Enterprise Holdings center in Tulsa, Okla., received nearly 4,0. January 2. 01. 3 to August 2. Officials at Enterprise, which also owns the Alamo and National rental brands, declined to comment. About 7. 0 percent of people who get a speeding citation in the mail from Cedar Rapids end up paying, according to the city. That yields about 3 million for Cedar Rapids, which assigns it to the police department, and amounts to 1. The citys rationale for the cameras is that the S curve can be dangerous, especially for unfamiliar drivers going too fast. In 2. 00. 8, a tractor trailer driver from Texas veered on the curve to miss a car and toppled over the guardrail, said Linn County Sheriff Brian Gardner, who was outside at the time and saw it happen. The cab disconnected from the trailer, fell nearly 4. The driver was wearing a seat belt and survived. Gardner, who has no authority over the citys speed cameras, said the wreck illustrated the dangers of the curve. Accidents and injuries have been less common since the cameras went up and there have been no deaths, data shows. Three people were killed in crashes on the stretch in 2. Its my professional and personal opinion that the speed cameras have made the S curve through downtown Cedar Rapids safer for drivers, Gardner said. Camera removal ordered. The Iowa Department of Transportation DOT, after a review of all traffic cameras in the state, in March ordered Cedar Rapids to remove two of the four sets of cameras and move the other two. Most speeders nabbed on the interstate in Cedar Rapids 9. J Avenue underpass just north of the S curve. The cameras pointed at the northbound lanes there should be removed, the DOT said, since drivers by then are already past the danger of the S curve. The J Avenue cameras in the southbound lanes, which catch the most speeders of all, must be moved farther south, closer to the beginning of the curve, the DOT said. They are 8. 96 feet from the sign that drops the speed limit to 5. Thats too close, said Steve Gent, director of traffic and safety for the Iowa DOT. A thousand feet goes by really quick when youre driving, Gent said. Its critical that the public believe these cameras are about safety. The city appealed, saying if motorists know there will only be a speed camera just before they hit the curve, theyll speed up after they pass it, defeating the purpose of the system. There are no disadvantages to the current program, other than displeasure among violators, the city wrote. The DOT is scheduled to answer the appeal by May 1. Hard lesson learned. Nancy Holden, a retired schoolteacher from North Mankato, never got in trouble for speeding in her life until she ran the J Avenue gantlet in Cedar Rapids. She and her husband were driving to Washington, D. C., to visit their daughters family, which they do regularly. They prefer the route through Cedar Rapids because it lets them avoid Chicago, and they drove through in late August. When the letter from Cedar Rapids showed up in her mailbox, Holden was mystified. That was the first ticket Ive ever had, and Im 7. She paid. It didnt seem worth it to argue. The Holdens still struggle to locate the speed cameras that nailed them theyre concealed behind signs. But now they are extra cautious. Believe me, now I slow down pretty early, Holden said. It makes me a little nervous to be there.