The claim is that red light cameras are for safety, but I would dispute this. It was clear that Houston was using them as a revenue enhancement scheme when the yellow light times got to be ridiculously short. The result was more rear end collisions.
Houston voters overturned City Council and the Mayor and had the red-light cameras turned off and taken down.
—The claim is that red light cameras are for safety, but I would dispute this—
It’s easy to dispute, since most tickets are for rolling stops before making a free right turnd. That activity is not even all that dangerous. It is the people going THROUGH the intersection that these are being advertized to prevent.
And in one city in Texas they turned off the cameras and the accident rate went DOWN. The city was so embarrassed that they tried to argue that they just had really good weather so there were less accidents.
It is ALL about money. Safety is not even a red herring, because even a red herring has “some” credibility.