yes, i believe your state is the only one with open carry; except Alaska who has either passed or is the proccess of passing a similiar bill. i doubt you will hold on to it much longer... i just don't have that much faith in congress critters. but i hope i'm wrong.
sounds to me like an engineering or design problem. maybe a drop gate like at RR crossings would be a better investment rather than more laws? or a by pass? myself, i would move from that sort of traffic, but that is not an option for everyone of course.
maybe the community should come together and hire their OWN expert on how best to deal with the congestion.... they would only have the motive of sincerly wanting the most efficiant solution ... unlike the power mad and currupt "public servants" who only seem interested in lining their own pockets and controling the useful tax paying idiots.
maybe i'm wrong.. maybe the congress critters there and the LE and the governor and the mayor etc etc will all volunteer to take a cut in pay to help fund a working group to solve the problem..
The cameras have been placed for the most part at difficult interchanges where there are hundreds of redlight runners per day. I suppose you could bring in heavily armed police and take charge of these places ~ but then you get the mealy-mouthed appeasers in here who want to coddle the criminal element out there bellyaching about wasting public money on a bunch of cops standing around like a road crew.
In the meantime, "open carry" is a risk the redlight runners will face now that public interest in the problem has been heighted with the prospect of Virginia abandoning enforcement. I give it a week after the law takes effect before the first criminal redlight runner encounters his just desserts.