Another one bites the dust (Clewiston, Florida)

Good. Get rid of them all.

Nuvi1300WTGPS

Put another one on the truck!

".....and failure to generate sustainable profits."

Alllllllllll righty then.

Legislature needs to get in on the act and listen to all the citizens of the state. Rid the state of RLCs.

In Arizona, several cities that had stopped using them have now initiated the necessary licenses for the operators and are re-activating the cameras. Boooooo!!

Years ago while working in Florida, I got one of those tickets. I had a CDL at the time and am generally a conscientious driver anyway. The beauty of being a truck driver is the habit of constantly checking your mirrors.

Anyway, I was in my personal car and yes, I did run the red light. However, I did it because of the dump truck tailgating me. Anyone who lives in Southwest Florida knows about dump trucks especially in the many home construction areas. So I took a chance and went to court using the "necessity defense".....my violating the law was a lesser evil than getting killed by a dump truck. The judge dismissed the ticket which kept the points off my CDL record but told me I had to pay the fine because the county needed the money.

Lovely !!!!!!

I can believe that. I've contested speeding tickets before and have seen such events in the past. It's always about the revenue.

"The court will adjudicate you not guilty so there is no points, however we will still access the fine." Blah, blah, blah.

That jumped off the page at me too, but they're all about the safety ...

Now pay attention class, today's word is SAFETY!

Mary, can you please spell safety for us?

Uhhh...S. A. F. E. T. Y?

Nice try Mary but that's incorrect, Johnnie can you please try to spell Safety for us?

Oh that's an easy one!
M. O. N. E. Y.

I heard my dad talking about it at the dinner table the other day and he's a city councilman!

Another city may also be dropping them....

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/49/4960.asp

From the linked article:

"Marysville Police Chief Aaron Easton is advocating for termination of the contract with Redflex Traffic Systems of Australia, telling the city council that it was no longer worth using the cameras given the difficulty of generating a guaranteed profit.

Problems begin three years ago when the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) began working on the two state highways that run through Marysville. Cameras had to be shut down while these high-volume routes were repaved. Caltrans has rejected requests for permission to reinstall the devices.

"For more than a year, we have had applications for new encroachment permits waiting for Caltrans' approval to reactivate cameras at each of the highway intersections, along with a new intersection at 12th and B Streets," Chief Easton wrote in a memo to the council. "Those permits have not been issued, and, in fact, have recently been denied."

Loss of the cameras has had no impact on safety. If anything, it has helped.

"Interestingly, in the two plus years that the cameras on state highways have been dark, we have not witnessed a resurgence in collisions at monitored locations, and, in fact, collision incidents for the year 2016 are on pace to be the lowest in at least the last ten years," Chief Easton wrote."

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