Red light cameras

[Bo8a_Fett]

In London we have 1,000s of them all over the place and my missus has had 2 tickets issued because of them...we had them turned over because one thing the cameras cannot show is the reason you were parked/driving there. In London they use them to gain revenue for local councils and although this is being looked into as illegal practice nothing much has changed...the traffic wardens are relentless, handing tickets out willy nilly and parking restrictions and congestion charges are springing up all over the city.

[Hulk]

We live next to Scottsdale, Arizona, the pace where Big Brother seems to have retired to live in luxury. We have Red Light Cameras and Speed Cameras, with many of the Red Light Cameras being upgraded to do double duty. And those are just the permanent ones, they also have a fleet of roaming speed vans, which my wife has been tagged by twice in the past 5 years.

The city also managed to accomplish the first placement of several speed cameras on the State highway, which they do not have primary jurisdiction of. Its a brave new world out here, one that annoys me to no end. Even though I haven't been nailed yet, when these things go off at night they flash a double bright light to help capture a picture of the driver coming, and the license plate going. You would think that you were having a Close Encounter, and it ALWAYS causes people to slam on their brakes (and yes, speeding is down in the immediate areas, but accidents always rise).

[toys2cool]

I haven't gotten a ticket but in Coral Gables in Miami they already have them

[ABMAC]

I think it's just laziness. The campus police here are pretty fanatical, but the regular cops almost never issue citations except during the last days of each quota period. Even if there's an accident, they leave it to the insurance companies to investigate and assign blame.

[Marvelmania]

The city where I live is going to be putting up red light cameras in about 7 different areas of the city this coming year. A lot of people are saying it's just another way for "Big Brother" to keep an eye on you. Anyone else live in a city with these or received any tickets from one?