Poll - What do you think this means?

I agree.

I have traffic tickets. And no accidents. I believe that I am not only a good driver, but a considerate driver. But I get ensnared by these stupid traffic cameras regularly. Not for doing anything that is unsafe. But by traffic cameras that were set up to raise money, not make the streets safe.

I was in favor of traffic cameras when they first were created. But after seeing how they have been enforced, I know that although they make a lot of money for the municipality, they make the streets less safe.

More specifically, they have shortened the yellow lights to unsafe times so that more people would get tickets. When a vehicle approaches a traffic light that turns yellow, the driver is faced with two consequential decisions --- either slam on their brakes and risk a rear end collision. Or speed up and try to beat the light, and get possibly two tickets --- one for failure to clear the intersection before the the light turns red. And possibly a speeding ticket.

I agree, we have to have traffic laws and they have to be enforced equally and fairly amongst both good and bad drivers. But something is wrong when a driver with no accidents regularly gets tickets from traffic cameras.

But how is it that some people were able to know all along that that was the whole point of the surveillance state? It doesn’t seem like you’ve learned your lesson at all seeing as how you are still begging for more. We DON’T need traffic laws to be enforced “equally” whatever that means (traffic laws EXIST to discriminate between “good and bad drivers”). We need fewer traffic laws, to PREVENT them from because enforced equally, abusively. The icing on the cake would be if a lack of laws caused those bad drivers to have accidents and need socialism via Big Pharma. The rest of us drivers need to be kept safe, from traffic tickets we can’t afford. The only way we can keep our freedom is to keep bad drivers off the road. How about a licensure test called real life where the penalty is an accident? Put the DMV in jail for 360 million counts of fraud.

I disagree.

We don't need less traffic laws. We need them to be enforced fairly. Traffic cameras need longer yellow lights.

I agree.

I personally think they are a good idea. But only if they are enforced fairly with safety in mind. My objection is they are enforced unfairly, in an unsafe manner, strickly for the goal of making as much money as possible.

I like the quote bubbles. They clearly defined who you are responding to. And what.

There is a way to avoid using quote bubbles. But then the person you are responding to won't know that you responded to them. And nobody will know what you are responding to.

You don't understand. We have traffic cameras down here. They are not reasonable like a police person would be. They are only set up to raise money.

It is legal to speed up (past the speed limit) to pass someone as long as you slow down after you have passed. But traffic cameras don't know or care why you are speeding.

Normally, police people won't give you a ticket if your trunk or rear bumper is still clearing an intersection when a traffic light turns red. But traffic cameras will.

So me getting speeding and red light tickets from traffic cameras is no indication that I am an unsafe driver. As a matter of fact, the fact that I have no accidents would strongly suggest I am a safe driver. Who is only being victimized by a city that is desperate for money.

Another fact is, studies have proven that traffic cameras set up the way they are down here make the streets less safe than they were before when police people decided who should get a ticket. And who shouldn't.

There is nothing wrong with raising money. I was in support of the traffic cameras when they were first proposed. But the way they have been implemented does not make the streets safer. It actually makes them more dangerous. Shortening the yellow lights to the point where drivers only have three choices --- slamming on their brakes in a dangerous manner and risking a rear end collision. Or driving through the intersection at a safe speed and getting a ticket. Or speeding up, attempting to escape a ticket and ending up with two --- one for failure to clear the intersection before the light turns red. And a second for speeding.