In many of these cases, traffic cameras are a lazy way to address bad road and intersection design. For example, we were contracted to install a red-light camera at a high-accident intersection.
Despite a history of praising red light cameras to no end, the Washington Post reported today a study showing that in the six years since Washington D.C. has had them, accidents have actually gone up.
Editor’s note: Part of an occasional series. Facing increasing traffic fatalities, Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill hopes to persuade Nevada lawmakers to allow the use of traffic cameras to ...
Sometimes the cameras help reduce one type of accident but increase another. In Chicago, the city with the most red-light cameras ... show an increase in traffic fatalities in Cook County ...
They are the red light cameras,” he said ... is to seek voluntary compliance with traffic laws from motorists and to reduce potential accidents.” Pursell said one benefit of the cameras ...
(WJBF) – Red light traffic cameras could be coming to Augusta ... saying they could reduce speeding and accidents. “It’s working elsewhere, I feel like it would work here,” Smith-McKnight ...