All Hail the Almighty Dollar, Red Light Cameras Options

[Cutrara]

I'm not against red light cameras. In fact, I think they're a good idea. What could be bad about reducing thousands of accidents a year? In the eyes of Dallas officials eyes, reducing millions of dollars in fine revenue a year.

"Faced with data showing that drivers pay attention to cameras at intersections — resulting in fewer ticketable violations and ever-shrinking revenue from fines — municipalities across the country are reconsidering red light cameras, which often work too well."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23710970

Just goes to show how the world is driven by the bottom line.

[Chhaos]

I stand firmly by:

No harm No foul.

As the autobahn runs... very loose restrictions, go as fast as you desire just be careful with your life as it effects others.

Who cares if you run a red light... if you made it through, obviously you had the opportunity to make it through. Red light or green light, if your paying attention you have a greater chance of making it through. The lights are only a suggestion, its up to the people to obey or not.

Chicago lights are horrible... absolutely horrible. And there are hundreds if not thousands of random "no turn on red" signs. If I can safely go I should be able to go! Forget the color of the light, if its 3AM and nobody is on the road, why should I do more than slow down and check to see if anyone is coming while blowing right on through the red light?

But see... without the camera, its no harm no foul.

With the camera, its no harm big ticket... that doesn't even make sense.

Kinda like the "war" on drugs, how do you totally eliminate someone's freedom and consequently use them for ultra cheap labor while inciting their environment to be EXTREMELY violent... for doing something to themselves?

Stop signs, lights, speed limits... really any sign is just a *suggestion* - a GUIDE to help us navigate the roads safely. We are NOT supposed to be fined or in any way inconvienenced simply for driving our cars down the street!

I've never voted, I don't want ANYONE to represent me... I never signed on to these signs and regulations... I think they are absurd.

I also don't believe in license plates, stickers (even NoS stickers), or licenses to drive. A truly free society cannot include such restrictions... and as long as laws as a whole are place (lets not even throw money into the equation.......) logical thought will not be the driving force behind each and everyones action - someone somewhere is just gonna align themselves with the system and work their way within it... as opposed to deciding for themselves how the world should be and helping to create such a place!

The world doesn't change by thinking "we just gotta stop at the stop lights"...

The world changes when we all realize stoplights are obsolete... let alone those silly cameras, and even further the silly tax applied to not following the silly rules.

I don't know about you but running a red light can be a very big harm. I live right around one of the largest universities in America and have seen MANY people almost get broadsided by someone doing 50 mp/h just because they wanted to run a red light. It is a very dangerous thing. I honestly feel a lot more comfortable driving around here now that red light cameras have been installed. And basically you are saying all roads should be like the autobahn, no speed limit and no traffic guidance, just everyone doing what they please when they please (correct me if I am wrong but that is how I interpret it.) The only problem with this is that entire system of thinking is just absurd. Let's have no speed limit. Ok, what are you going to do when you are doing 120 in your Celica and a Ford GT comes barreling down the road at 200 and just completely wipes you and him out? Also, no traffic guidance? Again, you are stopped, there is a slight hill and you are waiting for a clear shot to go. You start to go and again don't realize there is a car doing 150 and broadsides your car. Also, I know this is a bit extreme, but wouldn't having no road laws make it free for us to drive 70 through a residential gated community where little kids play in the street. I realize some people have the common sense to be logical and know to drive slow in certain situations like that but if you give some people an inch they will run a mile. There are reasons these laws are in effect. It is not just so lawmakers and cops can have jobs. It is the simple fact that it helps save lives. Plain and simple. The government is not always out to destroy our lives and make us suffer. It might be hard to believe but sometimes they want to help us and make the roads, and daily life for that matter, a safer place.

Just saying.