How To Turn A Red Light Camera Into A Cash Machine In Three Easy Steps
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 84 Comments »Ticket camera corporations like Redflex and American Traffic Solutions are great at extracting the most money possible from drivers in the cities that they partner with. Unfortunately for them -- and fortunately for anyone who values justice -- their biggest ...
City Manipulates Report To Make Ticket Cameras Appear Useful
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 52 Comments »How do you make a 17.9% increase in crashes look like a success? Make up a formula that says so. A recent report by a citizen of Las Cruces, New Mexico illustrates how far cities are willing to go to protect ...
Seattle Red Light Camera Issuing Illegal Tickets
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 4 Comments »According to King 5 News, red light camera tickets generated at a high-traffic intersection are being thrown out in court by local judges because the tickets are illegal: Traffic judges have declared the camera set-up illegal at a busy intersection ...
Tennessee Ticket Cameras: Can You Solve This Puzzle?
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 7 Comments »Last week, as way to turn down the heat from the general public, the Tennessee House Transportation Committee approved a two-year moratorium on new red light cameras and speed cameras. However, they protected the state's current ticket camera programs by ensuring ...
Ticket Camera Company Illegally Threatens Florida Drivers
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 16 Comments »When a city signs a contract with a ticket camera company -- even though cities often insist it's not the case -- they're delegating law enforcement activities to a private company. The story below, from TheLedger.com, shows just one of ...
Everybody Loves (To Destroy) Ticket Cameras
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010 Posted in Speed Cameras | 6 Comments »Ticket camera corporations like to put out press releases and pay for biased surveys that show that ticket cameras are well-liked by the general public. The reality is that this is far from the truth. This is borne out by ...
Red Light Camera Wrongly Tickets Woman Who Was Out Of State
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 10 Comments »In another story that ticket camera companies will insist is an isolated incident (despite a new incident seemingly surfacing each week), a Peoria, Illinois woman was sent a ticket that should have gone to another driver. WMBD/WYZZ TV has the ...
Los Angeles Red Light Cameras Lead To Increased Accidents
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 23 Comments »Thanks to an excellent piece of investigative journalism by David Goldstein of Los Angeles television station KCAL, motorists are getting the real accident numbers at Los Angeles camera-enforced intersections. The city has claimed that the cameras reduced accidents by 34%, but ...
9 Cities Where Citizens Voted To Ban Ticket Cameras
Thursday, November 5th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 7 Comments »Despite claims by the ticket camera industry that most drivers support the use of ticket cameras, the automatic ticketing devices have never survived a public vote. That trend continued this week as three more cities were forced to shut down ...
Driver Convicted Of Speeding Without Ever Receiving Ticket
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 Posted in Red-Light Cameras | 21 Comments »The Beacon News in Illinois has another story of ticket camera bureaucracy causing problems for motorists. Here's an excerpt: Unsure why the Kane County Circuit Clerk would send him anything in the mail, Ernie Bolen assumed he'd been summoned for jury ...
