01-13-2005, 11:19 PM
G.Irish Wrote:Well the reason it causes more accidents is because people slam on the brakes to avoid the ticket thus causing rear-end accidents.
Furthermore, as Mike said, how can you pay a company 50% comission and NOT expect them to do what they can to increase the number of tickets. I've seen the RLC before and they do shorten the yellow lights.
What I don't agree with is the fact that there are plenty of ways to actually increase safety at traffic lights but instead the powers that be choose the more dangerous way because it creates ticket revenue.
Yup. The NMA actually has a challenge...
"Show us any red light ticket camera intersection that still has high numbers of red light violations (there are plenty to choose from) and we will guarantee a MINIMUM of a 50 percent reduction in red light violations through the application of engineering solutions.
If our recommendations fail to meet our minimum goal of a 50 percent reduction in red light violations, we will pay the community $10,000 to be used on any traffic safety program or project it chooses. But, if we prove the validity of our contentions, the community will employ our engineering based recommendations at other troublesome intersections, and scrap its ticket camera program. "