City approves new red-light camera contract
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MURFREESBORO — The Murfreesboro City Council approved a new three to five year red-light camera contract Thursday night with American Traffic Solutions Inc.
The company will be responsible for all costs associated with the equipment and installation during the contract period, Police Chief Glenn Chrisman told the Council.
The city will give 100 percent of the first 1,200 paid citation fees of $50 per ticket to the company and then 50 percent of the remaining paid citations.
The red light cameras will record video images of autos and their license plates after going through a red light. A city police officers makes the decision if a violation has occurred after examining the video evidence.
The owner of an auto found to be in violation will receive a citation in the mail and can review the evidence online and challenge it in City Court.
The city since July 2008 has had six intersections with the red-light camera enforcement:
• South Rutherford Boulevard and Mercury Boulevard;
• Memorial Boulevard and Northfield Boulevard;
• Old Fort Parkway and Thompson Lane;
• Northwest Broad Street and West Northfield Boulevard;
• South Church Street and Middle Tennessee Boulevard;
• and Broad Street and South Church Street.
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I feel your pain.
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The term Red Light Camera....
is simply a nicer way of saying automated tax collector.
More money!!!!
RLC are revenue generator
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Safety Too
I went looking for the data concerning Murfreesboros's Traffic Cameras and found the following buried in a report of Police Statistics for the end of 2010.
"The Automated Red-light Enforcement System began operation in June of 2008, and as of Dec. 31, 2010, had issued 40,853 citations (12,101 citations in 2010). The crash data reported from all signalized intersections throughout the city from the second year compared to the first year of enforcement indicates the total number of intersection crashes decreased from 1,849 to 1,594, a decrease of 255 crashes or -13.79 percent. Side angle crashes decreased from 677 to 542, a decrease of 135 crashes or -19.94 percent and rear end crashes decreased from 1,172 to 1,052, a decrease of 120 crashes or -10.24 percent.
The reduction in crashes seen in Murfreesboro reflects a national trend according to a recent study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. The study concluded that red light camera enforcement programs reduced the rate of fatal crashes by 24 percent in 14 large cities that introduced red light cameras between 1996 and 2004."
The link is
http://www.murfreesborotn.gov/default.aspx?ekmenu=132&id=626...
Magical Statistics
So 6 RLC equipped intersections made the accidents at ALL intersections go down? What kind of magical association is that? When industry gets in bed with government, there's bound to be fooling around.
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it's not "Magical"
So 6 RLC equipped intersections made the accidents at ALL intersections go down? What kind of magical association is that? When industry gets in bed with government, there's bound to be fooling around.
The figures are a very good comparison of the total number of accidents (by type) for the entire city before installation of the cameras and the total number of accidents (using the same accident type) for the entire city after installing cameras at only 6 intersections.
The data show a decrease of all accident types over the entire city which means you can't claim the number of accidents at the camera equipped intersections went down because people used different routes.
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