{"id":38578,"date":"2009-11-09T10:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20091105\/1130166812.shtml"},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T15:31:00","slug":"anger-against-red-light-and-speed-cameras-going-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/38578","title":{"rendered":"Anger Against Red Light And Speed Cameras Going Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bunch of folks have submitted this recent Washington Post article about the growing anger and resentment towards red light and speed cameras<\/a>. We’ve posted similar articles in the past, but this is one of the first times I’ve seen the topic discussed in a major mainstream paper. The discussion basically hits on all the high points, showing that people really hate the devices and that the reason they’re so popular is not safety, but revenue. It also looks at the stats, talking about a few different studies. It does mention one study claiming that the cameras have decreased accidents and fatalities, but then notes numerous other studies that disagree, and digs into the details of the original study to find that it does not account for multiple other factors. At best, the studies seem to indicate that red light and speed cameras do not decrease accident rates (in one damning study, a town that got rid of its cameras saw a bigger decrease<\/i> in accidents than a neighboring town that installed them). In the end, it’s quite clear that the cameras are entirely about money, and have nothing to do with safety — and it’s nice to see more people recognizing this issue.<\/p>\n

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A bunch of folks have submitted this recent Washington Post article about the growing anger and resentment towards red light and speed cameras. We’ve posted similar articles in the past, but this is one of the first times I’ve seen the topic discussed in a major mainstream paper. The discussion basically hits on all the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}