[geeks] Stuff fo' sale

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 02:43:47PM -0400, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 14:23, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm sure each "speeder cam" is really a source of revenue,
>
> Here in the USA, there are many documented cases where the duration of
> the "yellow" traffic light was actually shortened at those intersections
> having a stoplight camera, in order to increase revenue.
>
> Of course a shorter yellow in this case means that people etiher brake
> harder or they speed up to avoid being caught out on the yellow.  
>
> Which increases the chance of an accident.

And has been shown to do so:

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/06/687.asp

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/12/1244.asp

But revenues from automated tickets are up.  Way up.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org