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Originally posted by Undertoad
. . . In the US, municipalities have tried putting cameras on traffic lights, catching people who are running the red light. They notice two things. One, revenue from traffic tickets goes way up. Two, safety goes way down.
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Well, as it happens, I just ran across an article in last Sunday's
Baltimore Sun that touts the benefits of red-light cameras. (Yes, I read the Sunday paper on
Wednesday; sue me.)
I tried to put the url
here but it didn't work because the stupid site requires registration, and -- I'm sorry -- but who's going to bother to do
that, right?
So, I thought I'd at least quote some useful data, since the headline for the article is
"Traffic deaths down 20% in city, police say" and the subhead is
"No fatal crashes reported at red-light camera areas" -- but, alas, this is the
Baltimore Sun, after all, so no useful information was detailed therein. Like, just for grins, how about telling us how many fatal crashes there were at red-light camera areas
before the cameras were installed?
*sigh* Oh, nevermind.