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Nassau red-light camera system to launch Thursday

Paul Zimmermann adjusts a red light camera set

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Paul Zimmermann adjusts a red light camera set up at the intersection of Lawson Boulevard and Atlantic Avenue in Oceanside on Monday. / August 3, 2009

Sweating public officials gathered at an Oceanside service station Tuesday to announce that the cameras perched above the nearby intersection, and at two others in the county, would start snaring red-light violators at 12:01 a.m. Thursday.

Nassau Legis. Wayne Wink (D-Roslyn), chairman of the Committee on Government Services and Operations, said the cameras were needed because "without the...

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