Newark red light cameras reduce traffic violations, bring in $3M in revenue

 

NEWARK — Newark’s red light cameras raked in nearly $3 million last year while helping drive down accident rates in some of the city’s busiest intersections, officials said today.

 

The 10 cameras installed as part of "Project Red Light" captured 93,634 drivers committing traffic violations between December 2009 and December 2010, according to Jack Nata, manager of Newark’s division of traffic and signals, who said the cameras are causing motorists to slow down as they race along the city’s most crowded streets.

http://blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates_impact/print.html?entry=/2011/03/newark_red_light_cameras_bring.html

 

All we need now is a gang camera, a drug camera, a prostitution camera and an illegal gun camera...

Tinfoil hat time - Big Brother at his finest. Unable to confront your accuser. In most cases the city splits the take from the cameras with the camera vendor. When these first started to see widespread use, they found that the installing company (the vendor with whom the proceeds were to be split) reduced the duration of the yellow lights on the intersections with cameras. Hopefully that monkey business isn't still going on, but who knows?

 

Sometimes you're paranoid because people really are trying to get you.

 

Adios,

 

Pizza Bob

http://blog.nj.com/l...eras_bring.html

 

All we need now is a gang camera, a drug camera, a prostitution camera and an illegal gun camera...

 

 

A lot of these started out in AZ, actually Paradise Vally to be exact from what I remember. The problem is most if not all are contract companies that rake in the money, I can't remember the split but the city and or state get very very little of the money collected. There were also as Bob said reduced time on yellow lights, trigger speed for speed cameras were not correctly calibrated and so on.

 

Now for the other camera types .. I think they already have some of them.

 

Harry

Did you see the reports on the news about the guy who stopped at the light at Broad and Market while a car next to him went through the light and they sent the ticket to the guy that stopped? The have video of every violation, and it was clear he stopped.

 

At the same intersection the processing company sent something like 200 tickets to people who were being directed through a red light by a cop directing traffic.

Did you see the reports on the news about the guy who stopped at the light at Broad and Market while a car next to him went through the light and they sent the ticket to the guy that stopped? The have video of every violation, and it was clear he stopped.

 

At the same intersection the processing company sent something like 200 tickets to people who were being directed through a red light by a cop directing traffic.

 

I saw that on the news, on the ticket somewhere is a website to go to the video.

Did you see the reports on the news about the guy who stopped at the light at Broad and Market while a car next to him went through the light and they sent the ticket to the guy that stopped? The have video of every violation, and it was clear he stopped.

 

At the same intersection the processing company sent something like 200 tickets to people who were being directed through a red light by a cop directing traffic.

 

I remember that news story, it ended up being a multi-part story, because they got McCarthy or some other high-ranking idiot on camera saying that even though an officer was supposed to review every video, it was impossible for them to do so, so they (the police) were just signing off on violations based on a photo and probably based on what some slack-jawed idiot in the processing center determined to be "truth."

 

In my opinion, the red light cameras represent evil on many, many levels.