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Red Light On Red Lights

By Kleinheider Posted on September 22, 2008 at 1:44 pm

Justin Owen, Director of Legal Policy, and Research Associate George Shifflett over at the Tennessee Center for Policy Research have released their findings after studying the effectiveness of red light cameras. They’re bad, mmkay:

The report suggests that cities cease operating the red light camera programs and instead opt for a safer, more effective and less intrusive solution such as extending yellow light times.

“Red light cameras are a troubling example of how government and business put money over safety and common sense to tag team Tennessee’s drivers,” Owen said. “It’s sickening that cities would put drivers in danger and the Constitution in peril just to make a quick buck.”

Read the full report.

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2 Responses to “Red Light On Red Lights”

  1. HMI writes
    September 23rd, 2008 10:09 pm

    Don’t know what it’s like in Nashville, but up here in NYC the running of red lights is epidemic. The issues raised in the report are all things that could be remedied, from the financial to the constitutional, and I’d like to see that happen and for hundreds of those cameras to be installed. My own theory is that, instead of lengthening the yellow, it ought to be shortened to about 1 second. This change (well publicized) will mean that drivers will have to learn to be ready to stop at any intersection. And before anyone reacts that that is not workable, let me say that it seems to work quite well throughout Italy, and possibly elsewhere, with little in the way of rear-end collisions. I daresay American drivers could learn to drive (in this regard) like the Italians.

  2. TCPR right about red light cameras writes
    July 21st, 2009 3:11 pm

    [...] included the report in his aggregation for 22 September 2008. What Owen argued in the report was that the installation of red light [...]

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