Traffic Light Cameras

[Red Dawn]

In got nailed by one in Boston, it cost me $150 plus my Ins rates went up. I was guilty of making a rolling stop though so I have no one to blame but myself.

 

[LTC8K6]

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/26/2642.asp

Houston Red Light Camera Report Undermines TxDOT Camera Study
Study finds accidents doubled at Houston, Texas red light camera intersections undermining the conclusions of a statewide report.

Accidents more than doubled at the Houston, Texas intersections where red light cameras are installed, according to a study released Monday by Rice University and the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI). This result posed a dilemma for TTI and the city of Houston which had requested the study.

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[WarhammerUC]

NY will have speeding cams soon.. new DOT study, 45% of driver doesn't follow the city "30 mph" street limit.. they're trying to pass that

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/123683

 

[BoomerD]

I can't find the link, but IIRC, when they installed the red-light traffic cams here, it was said that something like 70% of the revenue from the tickets goes to the company who owns/maintains the cameras...not the city/county/state.

As a rule, I don't have a problem with them. Running red lights is one of the more dangerous activities in city driving.

I DO have a problem when cities start shortening the timing on yellow lights to increase the revenue generated by the cameras.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: WarhammerUC
NY will have speeding cams soon.. new DOT study, 45% of driver doesn't follow the city "30 mph" street limit.. they're trying to pass that

http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/123683

Ever see those police trailers that have the "Your Speed Is" displays on them?

Pay careful attention to those. Some are speed cameras that will take a picture and you get sent a ticket...

I'm sure technology has changed a bit, :roll: but a few years ago, if the unit had one "hole" on the front, it was just a radar unit used to slow you down, but if it had 2 holes on it, the second one was the camera.


hmmm...2 holes? That sounds dirty.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: runzwithsizorz

Originally posted by: LS8
Well, back in 2006 I got smashed by someone running a red light as I was making a left hand turn. The ticket the guy got after totaling my car didn't keep him from plowing me though...

Hmmmm, you may want to restructure that last sentence.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing....

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

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[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: BrunoPuntzJones
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:shocked:

 

[wiredspider]

Red light cameras are nothing, they have speed cameras in Australia. Way to easy to get tickets there.

 

[nanette1985]

Wayne, NJ, corner of Hamburg Turnpike and Black Oak Ridge Rd. There was an article about it in the Bergen Record, haven't been over there to check it out yet.

 

[Baked]

Learn to drive and you wouldn't get a ticket.

<--- Lives in a city w/ tons of traffic cameras, passes through these intersections daily, never got picture taken.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Baked
Learn to drive and you wouldn't get a ticket.

<--- Lives in a city w/ tons of traffic cameras, passes through these intersections daily, never got picture taken.

normally i would agree.

but it has been shown that that the red light cameras are not about slowing down crime but about makeing money.

they have even got nailed for having shorter yellow lights.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Luckily, I have a GPS unit and I'm not concerned with such crap.

My GPS alerts me 600 feet before red light cameras and speed cameras.
"Red light camera ahead"
"Mobile police radar ahead"

http://www.poi-factory.com/poi...s/us/red-light-cameras

 

[beer]

Originally posted by: Lothar
Luckily, I have a GPS unit and I'm not concerned with such crap.

My GPS alerts me 600 feet before red light cameras and speed cameras.
"Red light camera ahead"
"Mobile police radar ahead"

http://www.poi-factory.com/poi...s/us/red-light-cameras

What make and model GPS? That sounds...cool

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: beer

Originally posted by: Lothar
Luckily, I have a GPS unit and I'm not concerned with such crap.

My GPS alerts me 600 feet before red light cameras and speed cameras.
"Red light camera ahead"
"Mobile police radar ahead"

http://www.poi-factory.com/poi...s/us/red-light-cameras

What make and model GPS? That sounds...cool

Garmin Nuvi 760.

 

[Deeko]

There are some near the Lockheed facility in Moorestown, NJ. We also had them in King of Prussia (when I worked at Lockheed). Considering Lockheed makes many of these cameras, I wonder if they have special deals with the cities they're in? Lockheed has a lot of special security needs - so they get that in exchange for free cameras? Hmmmm....

 

[mugs]

I saw a new speed camera in Middlesex; it appeared to be inactive at the time. It's on a residential street that runs between 22 and 28; not surprisingly, a lot of people speed on that street when traveling between those two roads.

It was attached underneath another sign (speed limit? I forget); it had numbers to indicate your speed, and below that it had a sign that says "Camera In Use"