Schaumburg Dumps Redlight Cameras After They Show No Safety Bene...

Courtesy Techdirt  Tue, 06/30/2009 - 08:15

We've seen it in a few other places, but reader Don Gatza let's us know that Schaumburg, Illinois is the latest city to dump its redlight cameras .

The city found that, despite promises to the contrary, the redlight cameras did not decrease accidents (not even the "t-bone" accidents that proponents of such cameras insist they help combat).

The city claims that even though a single intersection generated 10,000 tickets and over a million in revenue in just a...

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