Red light cameras, poor revune

[Pat K]

The Norcross, Georgia City Council voted Monday to end its relationship with LaserCraft Inc., a red light camera company whose US headquarters lie just three miles down the road from city hall. LaserCraft's troubles began last year when the Georgia General Assembly enacted a law requiring a one second increase (over the minimum national standard) in the yellow signal warning time at any intersection equipped with a red light camera. City documents show that once the law took effect, the accident and red light violation problem in Norcross virtually disappeared.

"With House Bill 77 we are now required to add one second to that . . . yellow light time," Norcross Police Chief Dallas Stidd wrote in a memo to the city council. "We along with other jurisdictions have seen a significant decrease in citations. This will cause a shortfall in our budget for this program."


Poor babies!

More here-http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/georgia-longer-yellows-force-city-to-end-red-light-camera-program/#more-271431

[doobie]

Now if only all jurisdictions got to the 1 extra second on the yellow....then they would cut accidents!  Nope, instead they choose to try to get revenue by having yellow lights too short...  I'm sure the MSM won't pick this up.

[Ogre]

Indeed, that's a well-known fact amoung people who study such things. Increasing the yellow light time reduces accidents, but it also reduces income to the state, so that fact is often hidden. Heck with today's government, I expect to see another second shaved off the yellow light time so they can try and get more "income."