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Bill to ban traffic cameras gets first hearing
I know there was a discussion about how to defeat Red Light/Photo Radar cameras here a while back - I'm too lazy to look it up - so new thread....anyway seems like this might be the ultimate way to defeat them - lobby your lawmakers at the state level
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04-15-2014, 07:26 AM | #16 |
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I'm pretty sure the cop could have charged him with CNI (or worse) for hitting a hotel.
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04-15-2014, 08:12 AM | #17 | |
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Yeah, I'm sure he would have stopped if he thought he was going to get a $100 ticket. |
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04-15-2014, 08:14 AM | #18 |
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04-15-2014, 08:24 AM | #19 |
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Cameras are just another way for the local government to make extra revenue.
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04-15-2014, 08:25 AM | #20 |
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We have them here, and recently there's been a major series of lawsuits based on all the crooked dealings and bribery that led to this company getting their cameras placed over the competition's.
In any case, I drive through one of these daily and I don't think it is reducing accidents. Not that reducing accidents is really the point of these, of course, they are money-printing machines for the city - but because of the cameras, people are likely to hammer on their brakes when approaching this intersection to avoid getting a ticket and cause a rear-end accident. That seems far more likely to cause an accident than someone who clears the intersection when the light is orange. |
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04-15-2014, 09:30 AM | #22 |
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Other than anecdotal references to safety (to allow them), that's all they're there for. Once they went to having contractors to "run" it, went to a "mail-out tickets" solution, and the contractors saying they'd need only a cut of the fines as payment, any thoughts on it being there for safety kind of flew out the window. Basically the city hides behind some goofy "safety" angle, they do nothing but have money pour in...
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04-15-2014, 09:33 AM | #23 | |
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04-15-2014, 09:46 AM | #24 | |
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Up here in Chicago they did that and accidents have not been reduced by the cameras and gone up at some intersections. Compared to Evanston just north of us, who doesn't have any cameras and has lengthened their Yellow lights to at least 4.5 seconds and usually 5.0+ seconds and accidents have been on a steady decline. Money grab and NOTHING more.
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04-15-2014, 09:50 AM | #25 | |
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04-15-2014, 10:07 AM | #26 | |
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These companies have lobbied to get all the yellows changed to that - and you'll notice that the Yellow light at the next intersection or the one preceding a RLC intersection will not be 3 seconds but proportionally longer. This is a joke. Even worse are the companies that got caught setting the Yellows to 2.9 or 2.8 seconds. May seem insignificant, but it caused a surge in tickets generated, and sadly a rise in accidents at some of those intersections.
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04-15-2014, 10:15 AM | #27 |
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So, this example here makes sense to you somehow?
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04-15-2014, 10:19 AM | #28 |
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I believe it was sarcasm- because the RLC didn't and doesn't do anything to increase safety or prevent accidents.
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