I think it's a good idea. Those that break the law will pay and the money helps City. Helps promotes safe and conscious driving especially at lights.

The story begins with a factual inaccuracy- no driver in Florida has ever been ticketed by an automated for-profit device. Under the law, the OWNER is ticketed. They may have been in another state at the time, but to the law this does not matter- they are guilty until excused or they ID another as having had their vehicle at the time. This is a tenet of fascism, not freedom.

Next, this is all about revenue. If it were about safety, there would be points for the tickets so the state could take license action for repeat offenders. The true gauge of safety are the number of red light running crashes at the intersections, something very few people are looking at. I have studied several cities in Florida, and the fact is the devices are ineffective when this standard is applied.

Automated for-profit law enforcement is a bad idea, and it is un-American.

As of now, the vote is 80% against. This is why the automated device companies take legal action to keep citizens from voting on the devices, and why they employ over a dozen lobbyists inn Tallahassee.

The Florida Motorist Rights Restoration Act will correct the legal issues with the law.

Automated for-profit law enforcement is a bad idea, and it is un-American.

DeElizabethan. Ever run a red light by a fraction of a second? Ever step on the gas to beat the yellow? You are a lawbreaker. You are a menace to public safety. You have run a red light. You are a scofflaw. You careen through the intersection. Shame on you.

You, along with 99.9999%. of the drivers are the target of Clearwater and the red light camera companies.

All because the underlying engineering standards that set yellow light durations violate the laws of physics.

http://redlightrobber.com

RLC are nothing but a scam. If you pull most of those "violations" they will be:

1. right turns on red.
2. stopping on or over the stop line (unless redflex is playing the move the trigger line game like Jacksonville, FL http://www.banthecams.org/Blogs/jacksonville-fl-already-planning-on-scamming-drivers-with-curb-trigger-line-scam.html).
3. split second that LONGER ambers stop like in this Redflex town, Oakland, CA! http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/39/3902.asp Quote: "The city has been so focused on revenue that the police department officials who manage the contract with Redflex became irate when the transportation staff decided early on to add a second to the duration of yellow signal timing at the photo enforced intersections. The change produced immediate, positive results.

"As a result of an adjustment made in the yellow-light duration period at most of the red light camera enforcement system locations, revenues have decreased," an April 27, 2010 memo from the Oakland Police Department to the city administrator explained. "Prior to this adjustment and after the installation of the system, yellow lights were set at three to four seconds. This change in the yellow light timing has resulted in a reduction of approximately 40 citations per day."
FIGHT THE RLC FRAUD!

BAN THE CAMS!

www.motorists.org
www.banthecams.org
camerafraud on Facebook.

The reason that Clearwater can issue so many predatory money-grab tickets with their red light scameras is that the yellow intervals on the lights are deliberately and maliciously set too short for the ACTUAL approach speeds of vehicles. This scam is done in Clearwater and many other Florida cities for the sole purpose of issuing thousands of red light scamera tickets to safe drivers tricked into making split second violations in the first few tenths of a second of red by the deliberately set too-short yellows. The scam is authorized and even encouraged by the Florida Department of Transportation so that the state of Florida can rake off over 50% of the money grab revenue without having to pay any part of the high scamera costs.

If Clearwater simply added one second to the yellow intervals on their lights, the entire scam would collapse in a sea of red ink as the scameras would then lose enough money they would be removed.

It is a total scam.

Scameras need to be banned statewide, and every politician at both state and local levels that supports them needs to be voted out of office.

James C. Walker, National Motorists Association, www.motorists.org, Ann Arbor, MI

Wow so many camera too bad instead of using so many to rake in the dollars,Clearwater needs to put some around the Regatta beach club so the next time a young woman is tossed off a 9 stories balcony maybe they would be able to find killers.Instead of saying it was an accident .....................A murder is among you!

A Murderer is among you!!!!

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