Speed Cameras?!?!? Really??

[370Z/28]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis officials are considering installing speed cameras. The city already uses a private vendor for 25 red-light cameras.

According to The Commercial Appeal, city Chief Administrative Officer George Little told a Tuesday meeting of a City Council committee using speed cameras would free officers for other duties and slow traffic in critical areas.

Several council members have said they view speed cameras as revenue generators and the council did not include installation of them in the current city budget, passed last month.

But Little said public safety was the priority. He said city police are testing cameras and he will report on the tests before asking for funding.

The city pays American Traffic Solutions nearly $4,000 per camera per month for the red-light cameras.

[jmann]

$4000 a month per camera sounds like highway robbery. I guess they generate more revenue for the pd than they cost though, I'll have to remember about these next time I roll through Memphis.

[joe603]

I like red-light cameras! F those guys who run the red at a high rate of speed. Now speed cameras...that's different and pointless really. If you know where they are, you simply slow down prior. Not sure that will help the city after the 1st year of being installed.

[370Z/28]

I told David last night, I'm going to start a website telling everybody where they are. If they don't move them around, they aren't going to be very effective.

I'm going to get me one of those license plate frames that distorts the plate and makes it where it can't be photographed.

[370Z/28]

I like red-light cameras! F those guys who run the red at a high rate of speed. Now speed cameras...that's different and pointless really. If you know where they are, you simply slow down prior. Not sure that will help the city after the 1st year of being installed.

I agree. It said on the news last night that rearend collisions were up, but more dangerous high speed t-bone accidents were down.

Anybody see the video of the car going the wrong way down the highway in Mississippi? Nailed an SUV. Poor innocent girls in the SUV. Arrrrrrrrrg.

[pippen99]

The license plate distorters don't work. Mythbusters did an episode trying all kinds of stuff available on the Internet to beat cameras and radar and nothing worked. Just gotta be careful out there.

[telcoman]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Memphis officials are considering installing speed cameras. The city already uses a private vendor for 25 red-light cameras.

According to The Commercial Appeal, city Chief Administrative Officer George Little told a Tuesday meeting of a City Council committee using speed cameras would free officers for other duties and slow traffic in critical areas.

Several council members have said they view speed cameras as revenue generators and the council did not include installation of them in the current city budget, passed last month.

But Little said public safety was the priority. He said city police are testing cameras and he will report on the tests before asking for funding.

The city pays American Traffic Solutions nearly $4,000 per camera per month for the red-light cameras.

We have them in New Jersey

http://www.photoenforced.com/

The issue here is for them to be legal the amber light has to remain before turning red (I forgot how many seconds) for each 10MPH of the speed limit

http://wobm.com/nj-red-light-camera-law ... -up-audio/

http://nj1015.com/jim-gearhart-intervie ... dio-video/

Since 911 cameras are going up all over

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/ ... n-tape.kyw

The British have them installed all over London and NYC has hundreds of them


Telcoman

[audtatious]

I love how people try to throw "public safety" as one of the reasons. Claims that they lower crashes/injuries is a load of BS. The speed cameras are a revenue stream for the providers and usually not the city.

We all know the cops who would be "freed up" would simply go somewhere else and issue tickets.