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Originally Posted by foreverwar
Funny how no one mentions this part of the article
"Citywide statistics obtained by NBC affiliate KXAS-TV found that red light cameras do reduce accidents. That is a good thing.
But they do it by reducing red light violations, by as much as 29 percent from month to month at particularly busy Dallas intersections"
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Ah it's easier to think that they're just there to raise money (as many speed cameras are) rather than prevent accidents.
While it could be argued that a speed camera on a straight bit of two lane dual carriagway with a speed limit for 40mph (while anywhere else it would be 70) is set up as a cash cow, after all, a car doing 60mph along said road isn't necessarily any more dangerous than a car doing 40mph, I fail to see how the same can be said about red light cameras or even specs speed cameras during road works, when there obviously is a danger in activities which set the cameras off, such as jumping a red light or speeding through road works.
The story here is not that the cameras aren't bringing in enough money for the city to spend on other things, it's that they're not bringing in enough money to fund the maintenance of the cameras themselves.