Friday, March 13, 2009

saw an article on red light cameras

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29681527/ on MSNBC

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More cities are signing up for red-light cameras like this one, at an intersection in Clive, Iowa. Studies show fewer T-bone crashes at lights with cameras and fewer drivers running red lights, but rear-end crashes increase.


In St. Peters, Mo., a city of 55,000, red-light cameras resulted in 3,203 tickets issued from January 2007 to September 2008, and drew a total of $235,973. The city issued 14,836 traffic tickets in fiscal year 2006, but that jumped to 21,745 in 2008, the first full fiscal year with the cameras.
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wonder what studies of KC will show in a couple of years.

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