Red Light Cameras gotta go down?
03-20-08, 08:44 PM
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Red Light Cameras gotta go down?
Since there're too many cameras at too many intersections near my area, Garden Grove, I'd like to see there're some actions about them at some points. They're nearly at every "block to block" on Trask Ave. Here's the news on MSNBC regarding the Red Light Cameras and the hidden agenda behind them. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710970
03-20-08, 09:10 PM
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Since there're too many cameras at too many intersections near my area, Garden Grove, I'd like to see there're some actions about them at some points. They're nearly at every "block to block" on Trask Ave. Here's the news on MSNBC regarding the Red Light Cameras and the hidden agenda behind them. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710970
03-21-08, 01:38 AM
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If it was about safety, all they had to do was delay the green for an extra second. Or they could put up dummy cameras. Most of these intersections have the cameras for 1 or 2 directions, yet most people believe there are cameras for all 4 directions.
03-21-08, 06:28 AM
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They thought about doing them down here in Mexico City, but the problem is that late at night on some street corners, for your own personal safety, it is best to treat a red like a flashing yellow, and in fact by law here at 11:30 p.m., you can do just that. I have known several people robbed at stop lights in the wee hours of the morning.
We do have on the major arteries speed cameras that ding you for 6 points on your license (12 and you lose your license for 3 years), but foreign and non-local vehicles are immune from this.
We do have on the major arteries speed cameras that ding you for 6 points on your license (12 and you lose your license for 3 years), but foreign and non-local vehicles are immune from this.
03-21-08, 06:50 AM
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that's awesome! they are becoming so effective that they don't even pay for themselves anymore according to the article. people dont run red lights, they don't get tickets, gov't can't collect free money. hmmm.. maybe they should have thought of a better way to increase revenue than by cheating teh public....
it's about profit, not safety, as evidenced by the study in the article
"Small reduction in injuries cited
What is clear in the study, when it is taken overall, is that red light cameras led to no real change in the number of accidents (4,059 with versus 4,063 without). But they did reduce the number of people hurt in those accidents, by just less than 5 percent (459 versus 482).
The FHA concluded that cameras provide, at best, a “modest aggregate crash-cost benefit.”"
it's about profit, not safety, as evidenced by the study in the article
"Small reduction in injuries cited
What is clear in the study, when it is taken overall, is that red light cameras led to no real change in the number of accidents (4,059 with versus 4,063 without). But they did reduce the number of people hurt in those accidents, by just less than 5 percent (459 versus 482).
The FHA concluded that cameras provide, at best, a “modest aggregate crash-cost benefit.”"
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