Just like Posted Speed Limits, they are set arbitrarily low to create speeders. Road engineers design roads and set the recommendation of a Posted Speed Limit to be the 80% of drivers speed. The government can't survive without making more people paper criminals
Both NYS Law and Federal Guidelines require that an Amber Lights configuration be set according to the "actual" speeds driven by drivers approaching the light, not the Posted Speed Limit. There is nearly an 70% difference in the actual approach speeds with the road engineers design limits and roadway recommendations of the posted speed limit - the local governments then lower the Engineers recommendations not for safety but for increasing enforcement revenue generation.
The one thing that every single study has identified as reducing traffic accidents at intersections (and the least costly) is to increase Yellow Light times.
Again most of the drivers aren't breaking the law, but these intersections are targeted by politicians to generate revenue and they have an incentive to shorten the ambers so that they can create the crime; people get caught and pay a fine or get into an accident as a result of the shortened ambers.
Back in 2015, Newsday revealed that there is a ticket quota with Xerox that determines the locations of cameras, none of the cameras were ever set up for safety reasons... it's all about stealing money from the public
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https://www.newsday.com/red-light-cameras-draw-complaints-at-suffolk-hearing-1.11117317]
They acknowledging that the amber is shortened prior to installing the cameras, and that despite the rhetoric about safety, it's goal is just to raise revenue (still not one study to date has provided any evidence that these cameras do anything to increase safety), however, delayed green and lengthened amber up to the required traffic engineering standards do.
The statistics are in - evidenced that red light cameras CAUSE accidents while creating a revenue stream - They are not for safety but for the $$$.
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https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/red-light-camera-suffolk-nassau-1.18387881]
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https://www.newsday.com/long-island...ckets-dropped-over-time-report-says-1.7835679]
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https://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/]
Suffolk County Legislator Robert Trotta exposing the Red Light Camera Scam. Click on our link to download the annual reports Robert Trotta is talking.
"A red-light camera installation plan without a professional engineer’s certification is identical to a medical prescription without a doctor’s signature."
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The RedFlex (Xerox Red Light Camera competitor) CEO was held accountable...sadly Xerox hasn't been to date
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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/p...tion-awarding-city-chicago-s-red-light-camera]
2020 Red Light Revenue disastrous because of fewer drivers getting tickets.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-disrupting-red-light-camera-company-revenue-2020-4]
Once the government has exhausted the revenue (theft) from one location they move the cameras to a new location to steal more at another lucrative location; but they leave the base so that they can bring the Cameras back later for more revenue/theft with little effort. These stumps now ending up with overgrown grass and are causing car damage to unsuspecting cars pulling over.
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https://longisland.news12.com/critics-bases-of-former-red-light-cameras-pose-threat-34742112]
Red Light "Stump Finder".
Below is the former link to list of locations for stumps. You use to find 2 stumps at each location. the URL is now defunct, and I am hoping for someone else to restart this valuable service.
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http://www.redlightscam.com/cameras-removed.html]
RED LIGHT CAMERA Somehow an intersection is supposedly so dangerous and in dire need of stealing your money, that they can't station a officer there to steal your money.
current locations:
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https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1NmX9ndN3ehNGOUZTum-wxrHA-jI]
Very few people pay the extortion fees:
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https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article228546264.html]
Ways to beat the Red Light Camera Ticket:
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https://nytrafficticket.com/how-debbie-eisenstadt-beat-her-ny-red-light-camera-ticket]
In Suffolk County:
The Suffolk County Employee who certifies the Red Light Tickets is named Mordicai Hay.
According to Newsday's Suffolk County Salaries website, his official title is "Clerk Typist" at an annual salary of $7,818 per year and was hired in 4/14/2014.
Suffolk County believes he is a qualified technician who can determine if you are guilty of a red light camera ticket by watching your video on the second floor of the Dennison Building. His title/function is a Clerk typist which apparently makes him more qualified than an engineer or even a police officer to watch your videos all day. So when you call the 800 number request that Mordicai Hay be present to explain to you how the camera system works, the calibration, the yellow light timings, etc. Demand a copy of the technician's certification before your hearing!!!
You have a right to face your accuser. DEFECTIVE CERTIFICATION:
Case must be dismissed as a matter of law:
People v. Eisenstadt
48 Misc. 3d 56, 15 NYS 3d 542, 2015 NY … - NY: Appellate Term, …, 2015 - Google Scholar
This action was commenced to impose a civil liability upon defendant as the owner of a vehicle which was recorded by a "traffic-control signal photo violation-monitoring" device failing to comply with a traffic-control device in violation of Local Law No. 12 (2009) of the County of _____________
