Should we vote traffic light cameras out of existence?

There is no bigger pain than to receive a ticket in the mail for a traffic violation that happened weeks ago. Or worse, to receive a bunch of tickets in the mail for a car you sold two years ago (that happened to me).



We pay our police to enforce traffic laws, and there is no better judge of a traffic stop than a veteran police officer. The actual driver of the car, not you who sold the car to him. gets the ticket as it should be.



And besides, do we really want some computerized Orwellian police state sending us machine-issued tickets and fines just to better fund our city governments.



I say we get rid of this nonsense and write our legislators today at www.congress.org



Thoughts?Should we vote traffic light cameras out of existence?
Sure let's... just as soon as all drivers in North America obey all traffic laws.
I am an officer and I hate cameras. Every now and then, someone has a legitimate reason for breaking the law and I don't think every one who runs through an intersection deserves a citation.





As for getting tickets for a car you sold. In my state (Missouri) it is against the law to give someone your tags. So if you sell a car, you should remove your tags and make them get their own. You probably already know that after your ordeal, but those laws are for your protectionShould we vote traffic light cameras out of existence?
I don't care for the cameras, but since I don't speed and obey signals I have never been cited and have no cause to complain.



one thing that I would like to know, how could you be cited for violations by the driver of a car you no longer own? license plates or title still in your name perhaps?
The real reason to eliminate traffic cameras is that it was a solution for a problem that failed to achieve its goal.

It was supposed to reduce the number of traffic accidents by acting as a dissuasive agent. The number of accident at traffic lights has not decreased and the cameras have been in use for many years.



Bureaucrats just want to throw more money to the problem because every dollar spent is 80 cts to support bureaucrats, plus the income from tickets.Should we vote traffic light cameras out of existence?
Stop complaining...here is this...you are at a stop light, yours turns green, you go forward the other guy runs his light and t-bones you, flees the scene...no witnesses, and now cause of you no camera...idiot
Well just because you don't own the car anymore doesn't mean you weren't speeding. What's wrong with it funding the city government when you were speeding in that city which is against the law? Yes, cops are good at issuing tickets, but that doesn't mean that they can't use a little help from the cameras as a deterrent to speeders who can cause accidents...
I hate the cameras!
Traffic Light Cameras are a good thing. They force people to slow down and think twice before running a red light. They save lives.



Yes there are many cases where speed traps or misleading or hidden signs are put up deliberately to trap people and extract money from them. But traffic light cameras are not one of them.
Good luck. Traffic cameras have nothing to do with reducing accidents or safety. Traffic cameras are for one thing, and one thing only - revenue. That's it. And frankly it's a lot cheaper (and a lot fairer) to have a machine issuing tickets than some dumb cop, who thinks that his bottom feeder job has granted him god-like powers to enforce or not enforce laws as he sees fit. I hate all enforcers of traffic laws, be they stupid human sor machines, but good luck getting legislatures to turn down a big revenue making mechanism like traffic cameras.