September 27, 2015 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
ILLINOIS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED TRAP,
SPEEDING,
TICKET CAMERA,
TICKET FIGHTING,
TICKET FINES,
TICKET REVENUE,
TOLL,
WISCONSIN Illinois is known as the Land of Lincoln, but the title of this e-newsletter is also a motto the state has used to promote tourism. Since Illinois also collects hundreds of millions of dollars annually from motorists for everything from tolls to speeding and red-light camera tickets, it wouldn’t surprise us to learn that many government […]
September 13, 2015 • DRIVER EDUCATION,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
IIHS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEED LIMIT,
SPEED TRAP,
SPEEDING Proponents of aggressive speed enforcement routinely trot out the old saw that speeding causes one-third of all traffic fatalities. Predictably, this dubious assertion showed up in the bogus IIHS speed camera report we deconstructed in last week’s newsletter. We say dubious because there is ample evidence to show that speed is a contributing factor in […]
September 6, 2015 • Corruption,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
IIHS,
INSURANCE,
MARYLAND,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
SAFETY,
SHORT YELLOW LIGHT,
SPEED CAMERA,
TICKET CAMERA,
TRAFFIC CAMERA,
VIRGINIA,
WASHINGTON D.C.,
YELLOW LIGHT TIMING,
YELLOW LIGHTS In its 30-page report issued last week about the Montgomery County, Maryland, speed camera program, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) does its best to revive a reeling camera industry. The use of red-light cameras has been declining for a couple of years now in no small part due to corrupt actions by one […]
“Red-light cameras have helped cut wrecks by 83% in Richmond,” cheers a recent headline from The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Wow! That sounds almost too good to be true. Let’s read on. A little further into the story we learn that the 83 percent reduction was for a single intersection, not citywide, as the headline implies. And […]
August 23, 2015 • ALPR,
ARIZONA,
CANADA,
EMAIL NEWSLETTER,
FLORIDA,
GEORGIA,
ILLINOIS,
LICENSE PLATE,
MASSACHUSETTS,
NEWSLETTER,
RED LIGHT CAMERA,
REVENUE GENERATION,
SAFETY,
SPEED CAMERA,
SPEEDING,
Technology,
TICKET REVENUE We find ourselves saying that a lot these days as we run across more and more stories like these: The first comes from Edmonton, Alberta, where officials are considering disguising speed cameras as utility boxes. When asked about the idea, traffic safety director Gerry Shimko had nothing to say about the covert operation’s safety benefits. […]
