True, however, several studies indicate that the incidence of more severe side strike light running accidents has gone down. It’s a tradeoff, one most of the supporters of cameras won’t mention. Interestingly, increasing the duration of the yellow light seems to reduce rear end accidents, of course, this is the exact opposite tack from that taken by cities that view cameras as a revenue source.
Our town voted to put video cameras at stop lights using the reason that they would to stop people running the left turns after red. But when they were installed, they were all put in the right turn lanes to catch people not fully stopping, because “That’s where the money is at.” After about a year of this people finally got mad enough about being exploited that they were finally removed. FYI, did you know that a large chunk of the of the fines collected got straight to the camera installation company? We didn’t, until after installation.
The camera co’s make the $$, funny thing is, I moved from a state where red light cameras are explicitly illegal to one where they are encouraged, and there’s a LOT more red light running here. Because they don’t have cops AT the lights, so if it doesn’t have a camera, why even both stopping?
randayn over 11 years ago
Hear, hear.
leons1701 over 11 years ago
True, however, several studies indicate that the incidence of more severe side strike light running accidents has gone down. It’s a tradeoff, one most of the supporters of cameras won’t mention. Interestingly, increasing the duration of the yellow light seems to reduce rear end accidents, of course, this is the exact opposite tack from that taken by cities that view cameras as a revenue source.
masterchip over 11 years ago
And just when did “We the People” VOTE for publicly funded, privacy invading, red light camera’s?
renewed1 over 11 years ago
This may be true, but we continue to put the wasters and corrupted ones back in office.
Ginrummy33 over 11 years ago
Our town voted to put video cameras at stop lights using the reason that they would to stop people running the left turns after red. But when they were installed, they were all put in the right turn lanes to catch people not fully stopping, because “That’s where the money is at.” After about a year of this people finally got mad enough about being exploited that they were finally removed. FYI, did you know that a large chunk of the of the fines collected got straight to the camera installation company? We didn’t, until after installation.
Dr Lou Premium Member over 11 years ago
Ok…the spokespersons have FINALLY made a couple of valid points.
water_moon over 11 years ago
The camera co’s make the $$, funny thing is, I moved from a state where red light cameras are explicitly illegal to one where they are encouraged, and there’s a LOT more red light running here. Because they don’t have cops AT the lights, so if it doesn’t have a camera, why even both stopping?