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Essential Material For Ticket Camera Activists

By Gary Biller, NMA Executive Director The effective way to defeat red-light and speed camera initiatives in your community, or to mount effective opposition to existing installations, is to ratchet up the pressure on local politicians.  It takes a strong grassroots ...

Short Yellow Light Times No Longer Going Unnoticed

There was an excellent editorial in the Wall Street Journal today on the topic of ticket cameras and short yellow light times. This is part of an increasing trend in ticket camera press coverage. Two years ago, the press never mentioned ...

9 Ways To Improve Traffic Safety That The Government Will Ignore Because They Are Too Busy Ticketing You

The Federal Highway Administration has strongly recommended nine tools for decreasing road fatalities. You can find them at the end of this article. Most of these tools are fairly basic and simple to implement. So why aren't they already universally ...

Increased Yellow Light Times Make Ticket Cameras Unnecessary

As a follow-up to our last post on short yellow light times, a local newspaper in Denver reports that the city is reconsidering its plan to install red-light cameras after the paper's investigation revealed short yellow light times across ...

6 Cities That Were Caught Shortening Yellow Light Times For Profit

Short yellow light times at intersections have been shown to increase the number of traffic violations and accidents. Conversely, increasing the yellow light duration can dramatically reduce red-light violations at an intersection. Some local governments have ignored the safety benefit ...