Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit

[peaceandlove]

Look out yellow light runners!

Maybe I should have put this under the thread about strange new taxes.


From G. Edward Griffin's site: http://www.realityzone.com/currentperiod.html

US: Red-light cameras are being adjusted to shorten the yellow-light phase to catch more drivers in the red phase and increase revenue from fines. In California, Schwarzenegger has proposed 500 new cameras to increase revenue by $338 million a year. By the way, shorter time for yellow is causing more accidents. But don't worry. The government is here to protect you. AlterNet 2010 Feb 23 (Cached)

I G. Edward Griffin!!!



Cities Shortening Yellow Traffic Lights for Deadly Profit

AlterNet / By Scott Thill
February 23, 2010

Some cities have been shortening yellow lights to nab drivers with a ticket. But studies show that they're raking in the bucks at the expense of public safety.

Reeling through a 21st century addicted to technology and surveillance, citizens may be too overwhelmed to complain of increasing cameras popping up atop red lights at intersections across the nation, most of which are designed to catch them breaking traffic laws. That is, until they're caught in those intersections as the yellow lights unexpectedly change, and cars in front and back of them hit the brakes or punch the gas to avoid tickets. And when they find out those cameras and lights are being gamed, sometimes lethally, in the pursuit of quick profit? Then they get mad, and maybe even, for being used as motorized money pits.

Continues: http://www.alternet.org/rights/14575...deadly_profit/