82 Alerts From the TRAFFIC CAMERA Tag

NMA E-Newsletter #147 – Caution: Red Light Cameras Ahead

October 30, 2011 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, RIGHT-TURN-ON-RED, RTOR, TRAFFIC CAMERA, YELLOW LIGHT, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING

The U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG) issued a sweeping report last week that provides stern warnings and plenty of cautionary tales of what can go wrong when cities allow privatized ticket camera companies to dictate local law enfor…

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NMA E-Newsletter #140: Lock, Stock, and Barrel

September 13, 2011 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, IIHS, INSURANCE, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TICKET FIGHTING, TICKET FINES, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, YELLOW LIGHT TIMING

The Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Florida published an editorial in its September 6, 2011 edition that is unabashed in its support for red-light cameras. “Red-light cameras are lifesavers” uses many of the buzzwords and catch-phrases we see every da…

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NMA E-Newsletter #139: Faulty Photo Enforcement

September 6, 2011 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, FLORIDA, LICENSE, NEWSLETTER, OREGON, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TRAFFIC CAMERA

We present two stories of traffic injustice by camera. Of course, the ticket camera is just an inanimate object used as a tool to perpetrate the injustice. It is the camera companies and municipal/state bureaucrats who trampled on the rights of th…

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NMA E-Newsletter #137: Houston, We Have A Problem

August 23, 2011 • EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEWSLETTER, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TEXAS, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA, WASHINGTON

That iconic quote from the terrific 1995 movie Apollo 13 wasn’t exactly what astronauts Swigert, Jr. and Lovell uttered on that fateful space mission, but it persists in popular culture. And it appropriately describes the dysfunctional relationshi…

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NMA E-Newsletter #133: Adaptive Signal Control, a Camera System that Actually Helps?

July 26, 2011 • ADAPTIVE SIGNAL CONTROL, EMAIL NEWSLETTER, NEW YORK, NEWSLETTER, PRIVACY, RED LIGHT CAMERA, TICKET REVENUE, TRAFFIC CAMERA

For better or for worse, cameras are all over our streets and highways. Some systems, such as red-light cameras, are used simply to scrutinize drivers for questionable “violations” in order to generate revenue with a minimum of inconvenience to th…

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