The folks out in Taneytown, Maryland, may well want to consider Baltimore and Chicago’s troubles with speed cameras, because they’re planning to be next in.

The mayor of Tareyton, James L. McCarron Jr, is looking at getting the cameras in following a new state law allowing their use in school zones, calling it a “good idea” and “something (they) should truly consider”.

Meanwhile, the city council wasn’t so convinced (perhaps they HAD talked to Baltimore first), wondering about rules and expenses.  McCarron deferred to the October council meeting to address those concerns.

Interestingly, this comes at right about the same time that a hole in the city’s budget to the tune of just shy of three hundred grand was discovered by City Manager James Schumacher, and now Taneytown is left to consider a debt policy.

Anyone else think this is just a coincidence, that the city’s in the red at EXACTLY the same time they’re thinking about speed cameras? Not exactly the best of timing at the very least, says I.  But it could all just be coincidence….

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