Red Light Cameras

City didn't put the camera up.

A salesman from Arizona come in and made a sales pitch to the City of Houston and other cities.
He is a businessman just like me and you.
Let me put Redlight cameras up and I will give you 15% of the profit.
The City Signed a contract with him.
Out of the 15% he gave the city over 600,000 last year.
How much money do you think left this town.
There was a study and they found out a lot of wrecks was caused by the cameras.
A few wrecker drivers and other business people came in and a lot of them are vendors for the City.
Why is it that if you break down on the city freeways, that only a few wrecker driver can run it and tow you.
They got the sales contract.
There's a lot of other companies that has done the same thing.

If the city didn't waste as much money they wouldn't be in trouble.

The cameras are not maintained for their accuracy either.

If I am the one that seems to be wrong.

Why would a Houston attorney state this.

Attorney Michael Kubosh said, “It’s a money grab. It’s not about public safety. It’s about revenue.” Mr. Kubosh filed a lawsuit in February against the city of Houston after purposely running red lights at camera-controlled intersections so he could challenge the use of the new revenue machines. He said his Houston ticket was mailed from Arizona and has a payment address in Ohio, indicating out-of-state private interests are profiting from the supposed “increased public safety” at Texas intersections.

It's the idiots on cell phones that are the ones i worry about riding,I can't tell you how many times i have had to avoid one of these nutbags yapping about lord knows what while they just drive along without a care in the world. Sometimes i wish i had a rocket launcher on the handle bars!!!

Houston is a starting place , just like everything starts in California.

Now they got redlight cameras in Conroe, Corrigan.
The salesman keep hittin city after city.

And you ever git to a red light and when yer about to be upon it and it changed to Yellow. If you don't stop when its yellow, you git a ticket in the mail.
You ain't allowed to side threw in on yellow.
There's a lot of times there is no way in hell you can safely stop when yer approachin the redlight and it pops up yellow.
But the Redlight camera is a Machine and can't determine that.

So yer at fault and youo git a Redlight camera ticket in the mail.

Squeeze 75.00 out of yer pocket and mail it to another state so they got money now.

A few months back I read something about the timing of how long the lights stay yellow. Report found that if yellow lights were to stay on for 2 or 3 more seconds, wrecks and redlight runners would be cut by 80% I think it was. Go figure this out, a simple fix, but the amount of revenue lost?

Here is a direct Statement from a traffic officer trained in radar enforcement.

I hate them. They had to re-write the law in order to get them through... I am a radar instructor,,, and the principle goes against everything I was taught and that I teach.... They should not exist....

Like everything else the various governments get their hands on, red light camera can be a useful tool, or can be abused. If the camera system is set up properly, for safety, not for revenue, then they are very effective at reducing accidents and deaths at intersections. To be set up properly, the yellow must be on 4 seconds, none of the quick yellows, plus the camera would take a picture on the red, and if the vehicle is more than half way through the intersection, then no ticket. If everyone knew they had 4 seconds when the light turned yellow, it makes it easier to determine whether you can stop in time. I have been in some places where the yellow light only lasts a second before the red.

As far as causing rear end collisions because of quick stops, that is the fault of the idiot behind following too close. After all, if the light turned yellow, the second driver should be stopping as well. Drivers need to leave distance to stop if the driver in front stops quick for any reason, yellow light, kids in the street, whatever.

When I am stopped at a red, and it turns green, I wait for a couple of seconds in case of light-runners.

The Study that was done, stated that people were more worried about lookin for the Cameras and it didn't deter people from runnin redlights period.
But then it comes to Revenue, by all means lets see what we can do next to git some more in.
And they don't even know where they are spending it now.
:gah:

Maybe they should put up signs "Red light cameras in use" at the intersection, then you don't have to look for them. Might be effective even if there is no camera.

they have signs

Red-Light Cameras Just Don’t Work

YouTube - Red Light Camera Case to Move Forward



YouTube - Redlight Cameras Malfunction-$400 ticket

Interesting article, one point it raised was the technique of shortening the yellow to get more tickets. If they were simply concerned with safety, they would have longer yellow, and delayed greens in the other direction. Unfortunately, the opposite is happening, just to bring in money. Government is corrupt at all levels. Correcting the timing on the lights would be far cheaper than installing the cameras, more effective, but would not bring in the revenue.