Tuesday, April 30, 2019

The Ban On Red Light Cameras.

According to the article "Texas Legislature, ban red light cameras as unfair, unconstitutional, and unsafe" written by the Editorial Board of the Star-telegram states that many large cities and private firms depend on the flow of money that come with citations from traffic fines that start at $75.One thing is that most traffic fines that come form red-light incidents are quite often not paid by and left alone by the owners of the vehicles. On some occasions, most are discarded and thought to be spam mail. However, on the other side of the coin, these traffic cameras at lights are perhaps the important to have in large city and smaller rural areas. They not only can record traffic citations, but, can also be of use to the people when accidents on the road occur.  To also indicate the article mentions "As for the only legitimate argument in favor of the cameras — safety — a 12-year study released in 2018 by Case Western Reserve University in Ohio concludes there is 'no evidence of a reduction in total accidents or injuries' attributable to red light cameras in Texas. In fact, the study says, by training motorists to 'stop even when it would be safer to continue through the intersection,' red light cameras have actually increased rear-end collisions at such intersections: up 28 percent combined in Dallas and Houston," which can be true, however: correlation is not causation, and with the disappearance of red light cameras comes more harm when there is not  adequate prof of real damages that happen at these stops. 

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