Other than work, forget about me going to town for just about everything.
I'll admit that those folks in those videos are clearly blowing off the red traffic signals, clearly, but I wonder what the unedited version looks like, and whether or not they show folks getting photoed that aren't breaking the laws. I work mostly in Illinois, and the collar counties of Cook (Chicago) are big on those cameras, big revenue that is. The city of Chicago where I never go, except to Blackhawk hockey games lives and breaths by those cameras and must have a gazillion of them. Right now the state of Illinois general assembly is considering banning them statewide because they've proven that the "yellow" light times have been cut down at intersections using the cameras and the companies maintaining them have admitted to it as well; statistics at heavily travelled intersections using them have proven that accidents have increased greatly at those instersections using them; many still have a tendency to snap photos of vehicles waiting to make left turns, clearing the intersections legally after entering intersections legally during "green" and had to wait for oncoming traffic to allow them to turn left to clear the intersections, the city of Chicago cameras are nortorious for this; and most will snap a photo of drivers turning right on "red" after they've come to full stops, then cross the lines to turn on "red" when the intersections are clear to legally turn on "red". Off of the top of my head, I can think of and name two Illinois suburbs that have generated huge revenues that have shut there cameras off, and/or are removing them...Shaumburg, Bolingbrook, and Elgin and a couple of other larger cities are looking at turning them off as well. Shaumburg had one single intersection at a super huge mall that generated $1 Million per month at an intersection that was almost impossible not to get photoed clearing an intersection while making a left turn, legally. Again, $1 Million per month in revenue, one intersection, and traffic accidents way up at that intersection after the cameras went up. In that case, folks began boycotting that mall, which cut Shaumburg's tax revenue greatly from their largest source of tax revenue. Again, in Illinois, the general assembly is considering banning them statewide right now, as is Montana according to a google search. Where I live in rural Indiana, we don't have them.
Red light cameras do some good, but they've also proven themselves to do a whole lot of bad.
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