These things have been a scam in every city and township that used them. In NJ, there was a scandal when a study showed that something like 75% of the tickets given by the cameras were for right turns on red, which are legal. The issue was the people didn’t stop long enough, and the decision on what was “long enough” was arbitrary from township to township. The bottom line is that the cameras don’t catch many people simply blowing through red lights. They catch people waiting 5 seconds instead of 10 seconds to make a legal right turn on red.
Finally,... a FReeper I can agree with.
Where you been?
In NJ, there was a scandal when a study showed that something like 75% of the tickets given by the cameras were for right turns on red, which are legal.
Guy I know got a ticket for going past a yield sign. They actually had a light on it. It was 2:00 in the morning. It had been mistaken for a right hand turn and installed erroneously. Riiight!
Also in the case of Brick NJ, the program had been previously suspended because the timing of the lights were mistakingly off the state regulated average. Riiight!