Texas Department of Public Safety and Highway Patrol Collaboration
The Texas Department of Transportation works closely with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to manage highway patrolling and traffic accidents outside city limits. While the DPS is described as a professional organization that provides immeasurable help, there is ongoing discussion regarding the testing of automated systems for issuing traffic tickets at railroad crossings in Austin.
dps· texas department of public safety· highway patrol· traffic control· law enforcement
00:00 How do y'all work with the DPS? Well, we work very closely with the DPS because it is the state law enforcement agency as far as patrolling the highways. Once you get outside of city limits if you have an accident or traffic control or traffic tickets that's the responsibility of the Department of Public Safety It's an extremely professional organization. We work very closely with them and they have been of immeasurable help to us on a number of occasions Thanks for your help sir Okay, appreciate it enjoyed it thanks for all the time you bet see makes it sound so good I know that this is early just said he said frankly the tickets are coming on the pole What I was saying was there are
00:40 there have been some projects where they've actually tested. Nobody's ever gotten a ticket from it, they just tested it to see if it worked. Here in Texas? Yes here in Austin at Railroad Crossings I mean they're actually giving tickets out for what five six years in California Yeah but we haven't done any of that and its purely something that a law enforcement agency would have to do and it is something right now I don't know if it's going to come to fruition, whether there is any interest in it. It's just one of those things... You said that it's probably coming as your opinion? No, well I think that far as that goes its here because we've already tested like at railroad crossings but if we can use a device like that keep people from running around crossing arms
