Red light traffic cameras spring up in Broward; question linger...

Ignorance Central wrote:

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You have it backwards. No wonder your life is so difficult. Just like your other self-inflicted difficulty you'll be paying a lot of those tickets.

How is that backwards, the state cannot just revoke my right to drive without due process. Just like they cannot throw people in jail without due process.

MrWrong wrote:

A delayed green light would save many, maqny lives and cost nothing.
Unfortunately, it isn't revenue producing.

maybe they should just design roads with no intersections and no lights would be needed.

miffed wrote:

<quoted text>maybe they should just design roads with no intersections and no lights would be needed.

I've long been a big proponent of that idea!

Imagine how much better everyone would get around.
How much gas would be saved.
How many lives would be saved.
How much more productive our economy would be.
How much time each person would get back.
How much less road rage there would be.
How much less maintenance our cars would need (brakes especially).

It is doable, but will probably never get any support because of the expense in the short term and the fact that businesses will be affected that benefit from cars being forced to stop, such as gas stations. Law suits would be endless.

SoFLDriver wrote:

Place a device in cars that if someone runs the red, there is a 1 minute warning and then the car turns off for 10 minutes. In emergencies, the police could restart the car remotely.
People will choose to protect their time and not run the red lights.
No clogged courts; no excess fines.

Yeah, let's take more control from the individual and give it to the state! What a dangerous road this is.

COUSIN PAULIE wrote:

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Yeah, let's take more control from the individual and give it to the state! What a dangerous road this is.

Good point

Red Light Cameras are making safe drivers extremely poor drivers- especially the elderly; if cities want to install cameras, they should make the Yellow lights longer than 4 seconds. Some intersections as you drive through on green, it turns to yellow and you exit on red. Bad drivers will always break the law but there should be some consideration for the rest.

Red Light Cameras live up to the name Highway Robbery. Does anybody know what kind of Camera are the ones being used in Broward, the camera has a small umbrella attached to it?

It's call a bulls eye target!

FYI every one its illegal for the city to issue you a traffic citation, you dont have to pay for the ticket !!!! if the city wants they can take you to small claims court for the citation cost.!!! the state of florida states there has to be a officer, some one to sign for it and that the actual driver of the car is issued the ticket.