Your alert FBvian has misquoted his source. According to his source, “Dallas likewise installed the cameras at locations with existing short yellow times.” Apparently, Dallas has NOT shortened the yellow light time, but it has installed cameras at intersections that already had shorter yellow light times. So is the problem with the cameras, or the shorter yellow times?

If this is true it really really sucks.

There are two things that will deter red light running. The most economical is longer yellows. The most efficient is the cameras.

As I understand it immediately after the installation of a red light camera there is a flood of tickets issued. Then the number tapers off to a trickle.

This tells us two things about red light runners. It’s basically the same people who do it. They can be taught not to do it.

Shortening the yellows is typical of the mindset about everything must be a source of revenue. Once an activity is viewed as a profit center then the next step is to make it more profitable.

By shortening the yellow lights, they are making it almost impossible under certain circumstances to avoid running the red light.

This is entrapment.

Bureaucratic greed will end up costing the city dearly when a court, hopefully, orders refunds of all the tickets issued under this program.

Every City in America can do new things , but Dallas.What the hell is wrong? Could it be City manager form of government? Think about it!

Predictions: 1)this program will result in a few lawsuits whose defense will cost the city at least 4 times the gross revenues it receives from the cameras. 2)at some point yet another story will come out about how the city has to pay X dollars to the vendor; this total will also exceed the revenues grossed 3) no one will suffer politically or career-wise as a result of this misbegotten, cynical way to raise money.