OT. Now you know why I don't go downtown much!

My wife said just the other day "You seem to get tense when I want you to got downtown" I wonder why? I'm glad our home town has notoriety!
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Must of been a result of the sun or the full moon in their eyes????? Couldn't have been driver error, lol techno distraction? Eye opening vidio for those of us viewing it here.

Other than work, forget about me going to town for just about everything.

I'll admit that those folks in those videos are clearly blowing off the red traffic signals, clearly, but I wonder what the unedited version looks like, and whether or not they show folks getting photoed that aren't breaking the laws. I work mostly in Illinois, and the collar counties of Cook (Chicago) are big on those cameras, big revenue that is. The city of Chicago where I never go, except to Blackhawk hockey games lives and breaths by those cameras and must have a gazillion of them. Right now the state of Illinois general assembly is considering banning them statewide because they've proven that the "yellow" light times have been cut down at intersections using the cameras and the companies maintaining them have admitted to it as well; statistics at heavily travelled intersections using them have proven that accidents have increased greatly at those instersections using them; many still have a tendency to snap photos of vehicles waiting to make left turns, clearing the intersections legally after entering intersections legally during "green" and had to wait for oncoming traffic to allow them to turn left to clear the intersections, the city of Chicago cameras are nortorious for this; and most will snap a photo of drivers turning right on "red" after they've come to full stops, then cross the lines to turn on "red" when the intersections are clear to legally turn on "red". Off of the top of my head, I can think of and name two Illinois suburbs that have generated huge revenues that have shut there cameras off, and/or are removing them...Shaumburg, Bolingbrook, and Elgin and a couple of other larger cities are looking at turning them off as well. Shaumburg had one single intersection at a super huge mall that generated $1 Million per month at an intersection that was almost impossible not to get photoed clearing an intersection while making a left turn, legally. Again, $1 Million per month in revenue, one intersection, and traffic accidents way up at that intersection after the cameras went up. In that case, folks began boycotting that mall, which cut Shaumburg's tax revenue greatly from their largest source of tax revenue. Again, in Illinois, the general assembly is considering banning them statewide right now, as is Montana according to a google search. Where I live in rural Indiana, we don't have them.

Red light cameras do some good, but they've also proven themselves to do a whole lot of bad.

Mark

In my small town there is only one light and it is flashing red one way and flashing yellow the other. In 30 years on the fire dept. we went there about once a month. but never a fatality. I have tried to get the town and state to cut a big maple branch that obscures the red until you are thirty feet from it in one direction but to no avail.

looks like real life bumper cars

Hmm, as far as I know it's ILLEGAL to pull into an intersection under green to make a left turn when there is oncoming traffic, then wait for the light to turn red to make your turn. You are supposed to wait behind the line until it is safe to make the turn. If the light turns red while you're waiting, then you wait for it to turn green again.

Of course everybody does it and the cops don't enforce the law.

Yea, well the one where the violator almost hit a police paddy wagon went on down the street and blew through another intersection and slammed into a Toyota RAV killing the driver who was a well liked nurse and active in the church community. The paper said the violator"s alcohol level was way over the legal limit. He"s doing time for manslaughter right now. I cringe at the one where the motorcycle had just cleared the intersection before the person blew through and hit the vehicle just behind the cycle. I ride so that is scary.

I moved from Dallas Texas to a small town. Still can get the Dallas stations on the radio. After hearing the morning traffic reports. I am very glad I moved.

And you could wait all day for a chance.

My boss showed one of our drivers on a red light cam, six different cameras on video. He was guilty and he got three days off because he didn t have his seatbelt on.

not true if the light is green you have the right to proceed and wait for your turn they even teach this at tractor trailer driving schools when its red you have to stop behind the line.