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Did the City of Pueblo shorten lights at red light camera intersections to generate revenue?
KOAA - News 5 ^
| Jun 15, 2017
| Eric Ross
Posted on 06/16/2017 7:15:34 AM PDT by george76
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News 5 Investigates: Did the City of Pueblo shorten lights at red light camera intersections to generate revenue? - full title.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:15:34 AM PDT
by
george76
To: george76
I wonder what the most effective way for disabling red light cameras is?
To: george76
Anal sex will cure the shenanigans these officials try to getaway with.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:17:49 AM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: george76
Red light cameras are always about revenue, not about safety. The companies that sell them to our cities get paid from ticket revenue, not from improved safety. Plus, many cities lower the yellow light time, which increases revenues and decreases safety. Red light cameras are always and forever about money, not safety.
To: george76
That is part of the justification for the cameras.
Honestly, it is in the sales pitch.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:20:16 AM PDT
by
redgolum
To: george76
three red light camera intersections in Pueblo generated $765,688 in revenue. The City of Pueblo gets to keep $160,094. The rest of the funds go toward maintenance and the camera company operator. That is a sucky deal.......................
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:22:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Unless you eat The Bread of Life, you are toast!.......................)
To: george76
weather red light cameras in Pueblo are more about revenue and less about safety
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Now there’s a real mind bender.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:24:04 AM PDT
by
loungitude
(The truth hurts.)
To: george76
If you get a red light ticket in Texas, and don’t pay it, by state law the most they can access a penalty for late payment is $25 - one time only. That’s it. They can’t report it to a credit bureau and the only other consequence is a possible registration hold, but even that’s iffy.
To: george76
Traffic control offices in Maryland counties did so. Once rear-end collisions surged, people began to vocally object. Then local governments took the sting out of that tactic by making such tickets NOT reportable to your insurance company. YES IT WAS DONE FOR REVENUE.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:24:44 AM PDT
by
Rapscallion
(Democrats are suffering Soros psychosis.)
To: baltimorepoet
There are diffusor sprays that you can put on the license. Do front and rear. What the diffusor doesn’t is send the image back to the camera in a broken image. They can’t read it.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:24:59 AM PDT
by
Kozy
(new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
To: Red Badger
They didn’t include the kick-backs to the municipal government desk jockeys and elected parasites who called for the installation of the cameras.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:25:42 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: baltimorepoet
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:28:25 AM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals/Progressives.have diseased minds.)
To: george76
5. Lubbock, TX
The city removed their Red Light Cameras after collisions at intersections increased and after the public became aware of a kick-back scheme involving one of the city bureaucrats.
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06/16/2017 7:28:28 AM PDT
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: george76
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:29:19 AM PDT
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DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
To: george76
There's a traffic light near my house that crosses a major arterial, old Highway 99, which runs through Seattle. Lately I've noticed that the light has dramatically differing periods of green which seem unrelated to the amount of traffic.
One day, the light will be green for only 6 or 7 seconds even with heavy traffic. Later the same day, the light will remain green for 30 or more seconds even with light traffic. I don't get it. It's like the short green in heavy traffic is intended to snag impatient drivers who can't believe how short the green was, and cheat a bit on the yellow.
To: george76
Cities do it all the time.
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posted on
06/16/2017 7:33:09 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: george76
DC shortened their yellow light time from 5 to 3 seconds years ago - in an effort to maximize “commuter tax” revenue.
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06/16/2017 7:34:45 AM PDT
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markomalley
(Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
To: Army Air Corps
Newark, NJ had red light cameras installed along some of their busy arterials as part of a three-year pilot program. They discontinued the program under a cloud of controversy.
The most ridiculous story about it was the incident where hundreds of motorists traveling out of the city after a hockey game at the Prudential Center received summonses in the mail for running the red light at one particular intersection. They had been directed to drive through the red light by a police officer directing traffic after the hockey game.
The incident probably would have gone unnoticed, except that one of the victims was the spouse of a state legislator who raised hell over it and embarrassed the sh!t out of the City of Newark, the State of New Jersey (for even authorizing the pilot program in the first place), and the company that installed and operated the red-light camera system.
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06/16/2017 7:34:45 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
("I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." -- President Trump, 6/1/2017)
To: george76
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06/16/2017 7:34:47 AM PDT
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Blood of Tyrants
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06/16/2017 7:39:43 AM PDT
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george76
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