[Brandonmark]

According to American Traffic Solutions, these cameras would come at no cost to the county. It could actually mean nearly $18 million in revenue for Lubbock County after they split ticket revenue with the company 50/50.

Marked for appropriate emphasis...Follow the money!!

[plainshame]

The motive is $$$ not safety!

[samadams2000]

$100 per traffic light. $100,000 per drone.

[umgud]

$36 million/year in revenue left on the table in Lubbock County? Sounds like the ciizens have way too much extra money laying around.

[vette6387]

My bet is that “what’s broken” is Lubbock County’s budget, and these bastards are not man (or woman as the case may be) enough to tell the people that they’ve pi$$ed away all the tax money and now need a “new source of revenue.” I guess Texas isn’t really as “different” as Texans would like the rest of us to believe. I mean they DO have Wendy Davis running for Governor.

[sickoflibs]

OK, before the whine-a-thon begins over this download the free Waze app on your phone and it will warn you of all upcoming traffic cams as well as police traps and traffic jams.

We have had traffic fine cameras (red light and speed) here all over this area for many years and they never got me.
And I am no Sunday School driver,

[Gene Eric]

The Enforcement Class loves this type of revenue.

[Darren McCarty]

A friend of mine got a ticket in the mail from Chicago from a red light camera. That was last year. He hasn’t been there in 15 years. They got the wrong car and he had to prove his innocence. He was pissed off and fought it. He won through the mail, but it was wrong to begin with.

[dsc]

They are turning traffic fines into taxes.

Fines are supposed to be a means of deterring and punishing traffic offenses in the interests of public safety. They are not supposed to be taxes, and public officials are certainly not supposed to use tax money to maximize this revenue stream.

This is misprision in office. Indict them, try them, jail them.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Focault's Pendulum]

This year, Brick Twp, NJ became the first NJ town to shut down the red light program. Some of this is due to the link below, but the mayor was made to realize this was much more about revenue, and very little due to safety.

Fired red-light camera executive: Company bribed officials in 13 states, including NJ

[PAR35]

I didn’t think Texas allowed municipal speed cameras (red light cameras are fairly common in this part of the state).

[jimt]

It's not about revenue, it's about public safety," Precinct Two commissioner Mark Heinrich said.

Bullcrap. They DECREASE public safety. Their only purpose is vacuuming the pockets of citizens.