Mona Marie

I live in Iowa and they are in the bigger towns.

JusticeClan

I live near Prescott Valley, Arizona. They installed cameras at stop lights a few years ago. It creates a lot of revenue for the town, but business has decreased too because people are going to other towns to avoil the area and possible ticket. They had them in Phoenix too, but I think those have been removed. I personally don't like it at all. If you go 6 miles over the speed limit, you'll get a ticket. Five miles over and you are ok. I have to use my cruise control to protect myself. I understand the tickets start at $300 and go up. And what makes it worse, is 3 wonderful quilt shops are over in that area.

Roberta

In the city where I shop and that's closer to my home, they just installed them at intersections. They said in the paper today that it allows them to electronically control traffic flow from a remote location if need be. I always look up and wave as I drive under them. ;)

MadP

I wish we had them in our small city, keep people from running red lights maybe.

dixiebelle162002

TN has them and I have heard on the news that accidents have increased in areas where they have been placed, so there has been some talk of removing them.

grandjan

I don't think they are as much about saving the police officers' time as they are about generating revenue. Yes, we have them here in Tennessee. There is also a little town in S.C. that put up cameras on the interstate as it goes through their city limits and was raking in a fortune on speeding tickets. Another place in California where discreet little cameras regularly nail "speeders" exceeding a 15MPH limit at the entrance to a park. No doubt they are the way of the future. The ones I have seen here are monitoring traffic lights to keep people from running red lights.

Owllady

Austin, Texas has some of them. People are fussing about their privacy being messed with. What about the people who get run over because someone is in a hurry and wants to run the red light? If it saves lives I am for it. I try to follow the rules and so should everyone else.

patmas57

[quote=qbquilts]One of my coworkers from my last position got two tickets in a row for not stopping before he made his "legal" right turn on a red light here in WA state. (He had committed the second offense before he received the ticket for the first one.) He admitted, though, that he was wrong to not stop.

With more signs going up about cameras, I've started worrying about how much over the speed limit we are allowed, though. Five miles? No miles? Another poster said five miles okay, six miles busted. Anybody who can "confirm" that?

sailormom98

Here in Houston people were able to get enough signatures of voters who are anti-cameras to get the issue on the ballet last fall. The cameras lost and Houston no longer canuse the cameras. City still has the contract to contend with. City made over 10 mil in fines- state also got its share. Couple of weeks ago new accident reports issued for intersections where camers had been. Accidents went down a bunch.
Lynne

klgreene

In my town in NM, and I'm not sure about the bigger towns and cities, we did have them, but they were taken down. Not really sure why, but not only were the lights there, you were not allowed to be in the middle of the intersection to turn left, even if you got there the second the light turned green. But there is a left turn signal, so you just can't be in a hurry. lifes to short to hurry through it.