Ever come home from work, open the mailbox and among bills and advertisements you get a letter from the good people of the New York Department of Motor Vehicles. You open the letter only to realize at some point in your travels have gotten the dreaded red light ticket. I’m sure to all of us this elicits a negative reaction… Well let’s take that one up a few steps!
Ever come home from work, open the mailbox and among bills and advertisements you get a letter from the good people of the New York Department of Motor Vehicles. You open the letter only to realize at some point in your travels have gotten the dreaded red light ticket. I’m sure to all of us this elicits a negative reaction… Well let’s take that one up a few steps!
Accounting to traffic officials these cameras are put up for our safety. To some degree I can agree with that statement. It makes some people avoid flying through lights late. Facts have been presented that they have saved a few lives and prevented major accidents by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, however at what expense? If more cars a slow down abruptly at yellow, the possibility of more minor accidents could occur. What about the varying flashing light that these cameras emit. I for one feel they are a bit distracting; especially at night when it is more noticeable. Its bad enough that while driving I have to pay attention to lights, cars, people, signs, emergency vehicles and maybe even the occasional wild life around me; at least those are all at eye level to the car and a part of everyday driving. All I need to add to it is a flashing white light that takes my attention off the road for a second that is 30 feet up a pole. Then of course you have to worry if the light goes off, are you getting the dreaded ticket?
It’s hard to say if these cameras are good or not, safe or a distraction, but at least I can say they produce revenue for the State of New York or do they? Ever wonder who is paying for these cameras? Where they came from? I never see them being installed, they just seem to appear. I can’t say the state is using the revenue from one to buy another, fixing the roads with it or even using it for other government projects to benefit the people. Taxes in New York just keep going up. The cost of living in New York is exorbitant. Where is the revenue from these cameras going?
In Suffolk County (New York) half the revenue from its red light cameras is diverted to a company similar to American Traffic Solutions in Scottsdale, Arizona. Yup, half the revenue and it is not even going back to the state to which the ticket was issued; as many as 700 communities (60 million people) outsource traffic cameras. Despite research, I was unable to find out where the revenue of our cameras is going. On top of it all the vendors reserve the right to have quotas that need to be met or they penalize the state or requiring them to make up for credits from prior months and to make it up in future months above the required quota. While some police and other local officials governed the right on what violations are approved for issued tickets others are governed by contracts that focus more on profits then safety. Now these private vendors prepared to take the next step and move on the placement of speed cameras. As of right now more then half the states have approved the use of red light cameras.
Money continues to pour out of our pockets to pay other states or even countries, when does enough become enough? When does our money provide benefit for us?
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