Red Light Cameras

[gtrcivic]

the yellow lights in fairfax county where there are RL cameras are alot quicker than a normal yellow light...thus causing plenty of people slamming their brakes at the sight of a yellow light....should be freaking normal time from yellow to red like the other non RL cameras.....in Loudoun County, they are the same duration of time as other non RL cameras.....fairfax just plain sucks balls

only been nailed once, i would like to get a paint ball gun and late at night shoot at the lens and all the photo camera will capture is red paint......

 

[Mr. dB]

OK.. Lemme throw the baby out with the bathwater... be right back


Did I say photo enforcement was the only way to go ?

What baby? This issue is 100% bathwater.

 

[danielson]

they freak th shit outta me, but generally even if its 'just' turned to a red i see people get away with it and not get flashed.

It bugs me in some area's though, even when the fucking thing is red people wanna run them, depending on the area its dangerous....generally if i think its unsafe to stop for a red I wont but that happens a lot more when the bitch behind you is speeding up to make the change. and if i get hit i still probably get some change in my insurance premiums either way

 

[chesty]

not an invasion of privacy as you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public.

 

[Mr. dB]

Privacy? That's a red herring, this issue isn't about privacy at all.

 

[Testosterone boy]

Sometimes I drive a loaded stretch cargo van and there is simply no way I could get stopped before the middle of the intersection with some of these yellow lights that last for exactly one second.

 

[bluepeter]

Most people that run red lights do not do so because they couldn't stop safely. They do it because they saw the light was getting ready to change and they gunned it through because they were 'in a hurry'. Get real with all this nonsense people.

As for some of the comments about the timing of the lights etc.? Perfectly true and should be fixed. However, that will not stop 80% of the people that currently run red lights from doing it. They'll do it anyway. Is it a cash grab? Sure it is but it still serves a valuable purpose.

 

[Y_lifter]

The Baby is the Traffic enforcements measures that are working at high accident
rate intersections. This is where these lights are normally placed.

The Bathwater is the issues you are mentioning as in short yellows, crooked officials and kickbacks etc that should be fixed by complaining, call action news or booting them out of office..
Have you done any of these things about this problem?

Learn what a "Stale Green light" is, and be prepared to stop when you see one.

And I still haven't heard any suggestions on how to better control traffic control devices which as we all know are 100% neccesary.

I know this first hand because when 3 hurricaines hit us last summer, I had to drive across town several times on 3 seperate occasions with most of the signals out for days.

Dealing with that 4 way stop nonsense at major intersections and 1/2 the drivers not comprehending or caring about it sucked Sasquatch Nuts.

 

[bluepeter]

The Baby is the Traffic enforcements measures that are working at high accident
rate intersections. This is where these lights are normally placed.

The Bathwater is the issues you are mentioning as in short yellows, crooked officials and kickbacks etc that should be fixed by complaining, call action news or booting them out of office..
Have you done any of these things about this problem?

Learn what a "Stale Green light" is, and be prepared to stop when you see one.

And I still haven't heard any suggestions on how to better control traffic control devices which as we all know are 100% neccesary.

I know this first hand because when 3 hurricaines hit us last summer, I had to drive across town several times on 3 seperate occasions with most of the signals out for days.

Dealing with that 4 way stop nonsense at major intersections and 1/2 the drivers not comprehending or caring about it sucked Sasquatch Nuts.

Those are some big nuts to be sucking.

 

[Y_lifter]

Those are some big nuts to be sucking.

And with lots of aromatic Nut Cheese..

Gives a whole new meaning to "Swamp Ass"