cams can’t protect you from accidents caused by those damn islands they installed to far out in the roadway, they should be at least 1.5 feet below what they are installed at, so you can make a SAFE turn in to the correct lane. they just get you a ticket, it is a win-win for any city hurting for money.
Cities hurting for money ought to scrap welfare, taxation and regulation and actually attract jobs in. Then they won’t be hurting for money. (Problem is, those with no moral upbringing will prefer welfare and crime to jobs.)
Those cameras aren’t there for safety. I rang the bells on them years ago after doing research and connecting the dots with politicians, the red light / speeding camera manufacturers and their donations, lobbyists, and the PR firms which distributed propaganda with skewed facts that were funded by the those same companies. I found so many instances where the same politicians (on both local and state levels) that pushed hard for the cameras were receiving rather large donations from those companies via PACs that were tied to them. One of the tactics I observed is that the PR firms would oversensationalize any accidents they could find where a red light runner struck a vehicle carrying children that was reported on a website like yahoo.com or MSN.com then post comments about how a red light cam would have prevented. Of course the leftist lemmings oukd always jump on board (which I bet they loved) and then they would run polls showing that the public wanted red light cams. This stuff worked great on mush headed city council members hich then set the stage for red light / speeding camera manufacturers / administrators to approach a city and give their spiel (after stuffing their pockets first with “donations” of course.
We all know those cams aren’t there to protect us so yank’em down.
My data showed that the red light cams actually caused more accidents from people slamming on their brakes and getting rear ended trying to keep from running them especially hen they shortened the yellow lights but a lot of them got busted for that so they had to correct it. Of ourselves their revenue went down pretty drastically after that