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by IAmBroom 382 days ago
If I run a red light on a bicycle, how is a camera going to record evidence where to send the ticket? Or a cop on foot, for that matter?

You're presuming there's an office on the spot AND the cyclist stops. The penalties for a car driver to run are heavy and likely: license plate tracks to the owner, and the cop identifies (or "identifies") the owner in court. On a bike? "Be on the lookout for a blue bike, and a guy wearing a yellow windbreaker."

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I'm making no assumptions.

The article clearly states there was an officer present that stopped the bicycles.

But to your actual question. There's a trivial response of where is the camera going to send a court summons to? The article is about bicycles being issued court summons instead of tickets. My claim is that you can literally just send the ticket wherever you gave the summons to and when they proceed not to pay the fine you send a future court summons (later backed by arrest warrant) and increased fines to wherever you would've send the original court summons to.