Posted on 05/27/2013 11:11:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I live on Long Island, where they’ve been putting these things up all over the place.
Been driving for more than 30 years, and I’ve NEVER seen so many rear-end accidents and near accidents in my life.
It is my opinion that the red-light cameras do absolutely nothing to increase safety and are merely a revenue enhancing scheme. If they REALLY wanted to increase safety, there is a much better way to do it: Increase the time between the red light in one direction and the green light in the other. Let’s make it a 3-second delay. I bet that would stop 90% of the accidents at intersections.
BTW, even on traffic-strangled Long Island, I’ve only very rarely seen an actual red-light runner - one who simply blasts through a red light. I HAVE seen many folks who, for one reason or another (slick road, somebody tailgating him, simple miscalculation, etc.) BARELY miss the yellow and squeak through a light which has turned red only a fraction of a second earlier.
Meanwhile, these damned cameras have everybody so jumpy that people are slamming on their brakes even on a green light, trying to guess when the light is going to change. Then, when it doesn’t turn yellow when they thought it would, they speed up. When WHAMMO! the light turns yellow and they slam on their brakes all over again, causing all kinds of havoc to everyone in back of them.
Nope, I don’t see the safety increase. I see $$$$$ for the town is all.
Regards,
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