Editor’s Note: This post first appeared on the NMA’s Driving in America Blog in February 2018. The information is relevant because communities around the country are still dealing with red-light cameras. Click. Click. Click. That’s the sound of money being made by your city’s red-light cameras. Officials brought them in for “safety” but now cities […]
How to fight Red-Light Cameras in Your Neck of the Woods
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April 7, 2021
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85TH PERCENTILE, Driver's License, DUE PROCESS, Fifth Amendment, LETTER WRITING, NMA, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, SAFETY, SHORT YELLOW LIGHT, Speed Limits, TICKET CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets, YELLOW LIGHT, Yellow Light Duration
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
March 3, 2021
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By NMA Founder Jim Baxter Editor’s Note: This post originally appeared in November 2008 and still has relevance today! It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red […]
Baltimore gets rid of Aerial Surveillance but doubles down on Red-Light and Speed Cameras
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February 3, 2021
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ACLU, Aerial Surveillance, Automated Traffic Cameras, Policing for Profit, PRIVACY, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, Speed Cameras, Technology, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets
The real issue here is that Baltimore wants more cash, and that’s what cams can give. Installing the cams ain’t cheap either. The Board of Estimates approved a plan that will cost more than $11 million to install ten intersection red-light cameras, ten portable RLCs, and twenty speed cameras. The city already operates a total […]
Is Third Time the Charm? Ban Red-Light Cameras in Florida in 2021
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January 6, 2021
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Automated Traffic Enforcement, DUE PROCESS, FLORIDA, LEGISLATION, Policing for Profit, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, SAFETY, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE
The Texas legislature banned them in its last session in 2019 (Texas has a bicameral legislature). Now, it’s Florida’s turn to ban red-light cameras. Representatives have passed a bill to do just that in the last two sessions, but each bill was always stymied in the state senate. State Representative Anthony Sabatini posted HB6009 in […]
DC Triples Down on Automated Cams and Vision Zero
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December 2, 2020
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Automated Traffic Enforcement, Bicyclist, Complete Streets, Infrastructure, Parking, PEDESTRIAN, Red-Light Cameras, REVENUE GENERATION, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, Speed Cameras, Speed Limits, Speed Traps, TICKET REVENUE, Traffic Tickets, VISION ZERO, WASHINGTON D.C.
Washington, DC, a notorious speed camera trap city, will now bring various other cameras up to the same service level (or cash, perhaps). Currently, DC streets are fastened with 40 red-light cameras, eight stop sign cameras, and zero bus lane cameras. Under the Vision Zero Enhancement Omnibus Amendment Act of 2019 passed this fall, the […]
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