Red-light cameras increase rear-end crashes – and revenue
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A plug for myself . . . recent interview on red light cameras:
We are assured they are for our own good. We are assured they decrease accidents at intersections. And with those assurances comes the unspoken rebuke: How could anyone be against anything that reduces accidents and saves lives?
It was not a question Rajiv Shah intended to address. Shah, a communications professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, originally set out to study the City of Chicago’s extensive use of closed-circuit TV cameras. But when he learned the city also had the largest network of red light cameras in North America, with RLCs deployed permanently at 188 intersections, he decided to investigate the city’s claims that those RLCs significantly reduced intersection accidents.
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/light+cameras+increase+rear+crashes+revenue/3554953/story.html#ixzz10A59LN1V
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