These cameras are revenue generators pure and simple. We have them here in El Paso and when they don’t produce enough cash they are removed. It is the same in Houston.
In New Mexico, the state recognizes that overall accidents at red light intersections go up and has banned cities from placing them on state maintained roads. The state of Arizona has canceled it’s contract for speed cameras for similar reasons.
The camera companies create a product that makes roadways less safe and enables bureaucratic thieves. I hold them in the same esteem as pay day lenders and porno shops. To foist their product on the public, they rely on useful idiots who assume that anyone opposed to cameras is simply a red-light running derelict...You know who you are.
I’ve long been of the opinion that anyone who supports the installation of red light cameras is either complicit in the revenue thievery they produce or just plain stupid. There really is no other reason.