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Originally Posted by Ganthrithor
Well that's fucking terrible. I guess that explains why yellow lights were so short when I lived in Boulder (they seemed to have a lot of red-light cameras). I still never did get ticketed but those lights made winter driving scary as all fuck (you're moving at normal driving speeds towards the intersection, light goes yellow and gives you about two or three seconds to stop... not fun when there isn't much grip or you're driving an old Land Rover... definitely not fun when both conditions are true at the same time.
Still, I can see why people would want red light cameras. When I lived in Denver I lived near a busy intersection of two, four-lane avenues. Every day I'd cross that intersection walking to school and I'd see people running the shit out of red left-turn lights... sometimes you'd see the light go red and 2-3 more cars would just amble on through as though nothing was out of the ordinary. You basically had to just sit on the curb for the first 5-6 seconds of the "walk" signal to avoid getting run down by morons. Even after a student was killed at the same intersection by a red-running SUV nothing was done to either adjust the timing of the lights to alleviate the massive backup of cars that always accumulated at the intersection or dissuade people from running the reds. Meanwhile the city continued to pay some corporation to place speed camera vans in deserted construction zones at night so they could try and illegally extort money from people doing 35mph on well-lit, sparsely-trafficked, ruler-straight 4-lane roads.
'Murka.
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Just read this article this morning, via Overlawyered.com:
http://wtkr.com/2014/02/04/red-light...are-too-short/