Red Light Camera News Local government, red light camera installers in cahoots
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Posted: 1:38 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011
Local government, red light camera installers in cahoots
I am ultra-opposed to the red light cameras that are a presence in so many jurisdictions around the country.
They're supposedly touted as a way to improve passenger safety and reduce the number of T -bone accidents. But I think red light cameras are not really there for safety any more, they're there to make money. Local governments are using these cameras as a conspiracy against citizens as a form of taxation.
U.S. PIRG reports the cameras are installed by third party private companies that share the revenue from the cameras with local governments. I also read in USA Today that the contracts the local government sign with these companies require that the length of the yellow light not be increased at any time for any reason.
Even worse, it is common practice that if citizen uproar causes a local government to discontinue use of the cameras, the taxpayers have to pony up huge dollars to essentially break the contract the government made to rip off its own citizens in the first place!
This year alone, the camera vendors had nearly 40 lobbyists in Florida when there was legislation on the agenda that would have required longer yellow light times to increase intersection safety. So let me tell you, it's not about making you and me safe.
If it really was about safety, the yellow lights would be longer. It's only about ripping you off as a citizen. Your elected leaders are in cahoots with private business, selling you down the river to score money. And that's just plain wrong.
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