Protest Letters Letters: Redflex cameras all about revenue
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http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/aug/29/letters-redflex-cameras-all-about-revenue/
Letters: Redflex cameras all about revenue
Posted August 29, 2011 at 3:46 p.m.
Grimes Slaughter, Oak Ridge
Redflex Traffic Systems has been operating in Oak Ridge more than two years. I have proven that Redflex is fabricating red-light violations to increase revenue.
Driving west on the Oak Ridge Turnpike at the Lafayette-New York intersection, the signal turned yellow as I approached, so I proceeded at 35 mph. The signal turned red as my vehicle exited the far side of the intersection. I received photos of my vehicle at the threshold, and another 310 milliseconds later in the intersection. Both pictures showed red traffic lights.
I revisited the intersection and measured the distance from where the light turned red back to the location where the first picture was taken. It was 96 feet. At 35 mph a vehicle requires 1,870 seconds to travel this distance. Therefore, the first picture was taken 1.87 seconds before the red phase and the second taken 1.56 seconds before the red phase. The clock was triggered 2.37 seconds before the red phase.
Back to the photos. Supposedly in "color," they are almost completely monochrome, except the traffic signal shows as a brilliant red. All of this "evidence" was fabricated by the Redflex system. I know with absolute certainty that the traffic signal was yellow at the times and places of these photos.
This incident raises some disturbing questions: How many others are targeted for this treatment? We will never know, because the Redflex system operation is hidden from all except Redflex.
Why would fabrication of evidence be programmed into the system? The answer is: revenue. This system has extracted more than $2 million from the general motoring public during its more than two years of operation. This fraud must be stopped.
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