News stories like such as one from STLtoday.com are infuriatingly common. Keep this in mind when you hear a city council enthusiastically praising the idea of installing ticket cameras. Here’s an excerpt: When the push to install red-light cameras came to City Hall in 2005, the Board of Aldermen enthusiastically backed the plan as a boon […]
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City Of Scottsdale, Arizona Lies To Drivers To Get Their Money
Anyone who has the misfortune of having to drive in Scottsdale, Arizona should read this story from the Phoenix New Times. Here’s an excerpt: Here’s one way to get people to pay their photo enforcement tickets or waive their right to proper service: Lie. That’s what the Scottsdale City Court does in tickets generated from […]
Texas DOT Red-Light Camera Report Seriously Flawed
Guest Article by NMA Member, Greg Mauz “Analysis on the Effectiveness of Photographic Traffic Signal Enforcement Systems in Texas” contains more integrity problems than almost any report I have ever analyzed concerning red-light ticket cameras. Biases and conflicts of interest abound. Texas DOT is blatantly pro-camera. Their web site reads like a camera company sales […]
Red-Light Cameras Do Not Reduce Right Angle Crashes
By Jim Baxter, NMA President It seems that the most implausible myths are the hardest ones to kill off. Other than within the institutional capital of the Flat Earth Society, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, it is generally accepted that red light ticket cameras increase rear-end collisions, often dramatically. However, the supposed off-setting rationale […]
Help Us Stop Short Yellow Lights
The National Motorists Association Foundation is organizing a national grassroots effort to publicize and discourage the practice of using traffic signals with short yellow durations as revenue generators at red light ticket camera intersections. The Stop Short Yellow Lights Project will prove how widespread and pervasive this practice is. What is the Stop Short Yellow […]
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