Traffic camera tickets are a load of BULLCRAP

[famousringo]

Kasz216 said:

famousringo said:
I'm not completely opposed to the idea of red light cameras, but I hear some jurisdictions have been shortening yellow lights to increase infractions, increase revenues, and make the intersection less safe than it was before the camera.

Hurting people so the city can get more ticket revenues? Now that's some real bullshit.

Oh, there is a bigger problem then that actually.

Trafic Cameras actually make the roads less safe.  Intersections that get cameras tend to have an increase in accidents by some crazy number like 30%  I learned it in an urban planning class.  It increases city revenue but decreases city saftey.

The thing is, people don't change how they drive... just rather then running a  yellow light they SLAM on their breaks hard... and the guy behind them ends up rearending them.

 

Trafic cameras are a significant risk to public saftey when they are meant to improve it.  As for people getting tickets from cameras... I don't really have a problem with it... other then the huge saftey risks it causes.

Hm, I was lead to believe that the reduced safety was due to the shortening of the yellow out of greed, not changed driver behavior.

Either way, if it makes the intersection less safe, it has no reason to be there.