Red Light Camera News LA Losing Money on Red Light Cameras
(Ban the Cams note: LA just did a 3 month extension on the contract. a post will shortly follow).
http://blog.photoenforced.com/2011/04/la-losing-money-on-red-light-cameras.html
LA Losing Money on Red Light Cameras
by Jeff Cohn | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 | California, City Council, Los Angeles, red light cameras, revenue | 0 comments »
Safer Streets L.A. has raised the pertinent question of whether photo enforcement is a legitimate use of city and law enforcement resources considering the recent acknowledgement by the LAPD and LADOT that intersections have been made safer due to signal timing enhancements alone. Safer Streets L.A. and its supporters will be providing public comment as to why the contract should not be extended.
- Effect of Extending PRL Contract 3 Months
- Immediate cost of $ $901,539.00 (Vendor and LAPD/DOT)
- Overall Loss of $22,000 (after income from tickets many months later)
- Loss To Local Economy: $1,072,861.00+ (In ticket costs alone. Additional losses to the economy from higher insurance premiums.)
- Cost for 30 day warning period $0.00 (Vendor pays this cost. Need warning period if system moved to new locations anyway.)
- No Improvement in Safety (Accidents were eliminated by original engineering countermeasures, Cameras not put at most dangerous intersections)
- 75% of Tickets for Rolling Right Turns (97% at some intersection approaches)*
- Violations can be further reduced by lengthening yellow light .3 - .7 seconds at minimal cost
3 Month Projections for Contract Extension
| Receipts due from Superior Court | $1,072,861.00 |
| Reporters Salary Fund Deductions at 18% | $ (193,114.98) |
| Estimated Revenue from RLC Program | $879,746.02 |
| Vendor Costs | $691,194.00 |
| Labor (LADOT & LAPD Direct) | $210,345.00 |
| LADOT Infrastructure Cost Amortization | $ - |
| Total costs | $901,539.00 |
| Net Income (Loss) | $ (21,792.98) |
*Citation Data from LAPD
**Costs and revenue projections verified by Controller’s office.
The Safer Streets LA studies can be viewed and downloaded for free at www.saferstreetsla.org/repo
Subscribe to this comment's feedwritten by samantha jones , June 27, 2011
Thank you for posting the data above. Traffic accidents in the United States are caused by drivers running red lights which accounts for 22%, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway safety.In many areas, red-light violations have accrued by 10 percent or more since the 1980s.To droop this trend, more and more cities are installing red-light cameras. These fully automated devices collect all of the evidence authorities need to prosecute light-runners.However, residents including Los Angeles, Houston and Spokane, Wash., are trying to get rid of the cameras for various reasons. I found this here: Red light cameras facing backlash from cities. You can check that out for a detailed information. To add, from what I've read, Spokane makes $500,000 per year from the cameras. ATS also administers cameras in Los Angeles and its lobbying representatives from Sage Advisors. ATS is also trying to get up to $20 million from the city of Houston, Texas, according to the Houston Chronicle, after citizens of Houston voted via referendum to shut the red light camera system down before the contract between Houston and ATS expired.
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