Comments on: Red-Light Cameras Just Don’t Work

By: Todd

Todd — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:33:03 +0000

These make little sense to me. If you receive a speeding ticket or are stopped by an officer, the individual is ticketed. These pre-suppose that the person who is driving the automobile is to whom the person the car is registered. So essentially you are convicting based on a license plate. That means that if you car were borrowed, stolen or driven by someone else than the registered individual, the registar would be liable. Makes little sense as it seems violative of law. The same argument should be sound of someone in your car kills a passerby while you sat at home. Should you be convicted of vehicular homicide? It makes little sense to me. I see the benefit but I think it’s merely a poor substitute for patrols.

Should we put cameras in everyone’s home as a prevention to robbery?

By: R. Scott

R. Scott — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:15:38 +0000

I just got a ticket in the mail for making a right hand turn. The police officer viewing the video determined that I broke the law. Are they going to start sending tickets in the mail if they see you spit on the street, J-walk, or finger the camera, what’s next? This is ridiculous, and obviously just a money making venture. I for one will not return to Lynnwood, WA and spend any more money in their precious little town, Thank You.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:07:27 +0000

You have the power to decide the fate of your city.

RLCs were installed in College Station, TX. Enough signatures were collected to put this issue on the ballot at the next election.

The citizens voted to BAN the cameras, and the City took them all down. Government likes to be in control. We as citizens have a duty to make sure our representatives are truly representative of our ideals.

This is America. I say no thank you to anything that resembles Big Brother.

By: Laura Chapman

Laura Chapman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:26:02 +0000

This is what we should of done a long time a go!!!

By: Laura Chapman

Laura Chapman — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:32 +0000

This is very helping to me and other young drivers around town

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:32:39 +0000

In Fullerton, I’ve seen so many drivers freak-out when the light turns yellow because they don’t want to get a ticket. I’ve also noticed that the yellows seem conspicuously short. Also if running a red is such a travesty to society, shouldn’t society benefit from the excessive fines by having the money returned to the citizens? No way, that money gets soaked up in the bureaucracy. What about when cops violate the traffic laws, and I’m not talking about those in pursuit or response to a call, but those who just “enjoy” their authority a little too much. They should lose their jobs, pension, and be fined 25 times that of a citizen.

By: Nicolette

Nicolette — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:47:29 +0000

I’m a tv news producer in Los Angeles looking for someone local (Riverside countey, Ventura county, Los Angeles county, San Bernardino county or Orange county) who has been Rear Ended at a Red Camera Intersection OR rear ended someone who abruptly stopped when they saw the red light camera.
Please contact Nicolette
818-655-2441

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:22:02 +0000

I got one of these dumb tickets too. I missed the light by 0.3 seconds. I was so close to the light when it changed, I couldn’t even see it through the roof of my car (I’m tall, so I don’t have a good line of sight upward.) It was a Friday evening, I was tired, the intersection was empty and I made the wrong judgement on the yellow time (who picks these absurd yellow times…like 3.42 seconds? Seriously.) The stupid city of Dallas would not dismiss it. They didn’t give one flip about the circumstances. A policeman would have let me off with a warning, but not the people behind these cameras. That’s not right. We shouldn’t be subject to punishment via some device. We’re humans; we should be dealt with by other humans as humans.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:18:32 +0000

There is a simple and valid reason why people have rear-end collisions at lights. Unless you are the myopic type, when you drive, you look beyond the car in front of you. When you reach a yellow light, your brain makes the subconscious calculation of whether the car in front of you will go through and therefore whether you should or not. If you believe the car in front of you will stop, you stop. If you do not, and you also believe you can make it, you do not stop. Very simple, very true. The problem comes in when you believe you should go and the guy in front of you does not and slams on his brakes. Not only are you not expecting that but it is a sudden event. You may even be accelerating when he jams on the brakes…and bam, an accident. You can grouse all you want about people needing to leave more space, but drivers who do odd things (like stop when they are not supposed to) are a major cause of accidents.

By: rodzli

rodzli — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:08:10 +0000

I got two red light camera tickets in one month, at the same exact spot, except i made a right turn on red. That second ticket i defenetly made a stop and the camera still shot a picture. I am so confused, and i definetly can not afford an attorney that wants to charge $950 to help fight it. i dont think i should be charged $ 500. for a red light ticket. I never ran that red light, possibly the first ticket i might have rolled through the right turn, but like one of the comments said, it should not be cited as a full red light ticket.