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¶ … Red Light Cameras
"I always feel like somebody's watching me." This isn't just the lyric to a popular 80s song -- it is the reality in New York City at many stoplights. In most cities, suburbs, and towns, if a driver makes a moving violation and no one sees what the driver is doing, the driver has effectively gotten away with the crime. As noted on the New York City official website, New York has instituted a red light camera system whereby drivers that are photographed going through red lights will receive a Notice of Liability (NOL) ("Red light cameras").
The city's defense of this policy is simple: in a city as heavily populated as NYC, it is difficult to find enough police officers to be free to police red lights. Unfortunately, unlike human beings, the red lights cannot exercise good judgement about what is safe driving and what is unsafe driving. All of us have been driving through a yellow light that turned red just as we were passing through it. Sometimes it is safer to speed up and slow down if someone is tailgating you, for example. But the red light ticket system leaves no leeway for drivers' common sense. If someone...
For example, just recently, a driver of a seafood truck was rear-ended: the driver said he was forced to make a difficult decision between continuing to move forward and incurring a $50 fine when confronted with a yellow light or slamming on his brakes. He chose to do the later and the result was an accident (Cole). Similar programs in New Jersey and Nassau County have already been discontinued because of a higher rate of accidents.
In an appearance on PIX 11 news Juan Martinez, New York City's Department of Transportation's Director of Strategic Initiatives stated: "What you see happening is that when people expect the law to be enforced, they stop blowing through red lights. It really is very straightforward. Every yellow light is timed to the same whether camera there or not: 3 seconds if it's 30 mph." But critics counter that is precisely the problem with the program -- the timing of the yellow lights is simply too short for certain city areas.
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Works Cited
Blau, Reuven. "City's red light camera revenue sees drop, records show." The Daily News.
7 Apr 2014. Web. 10 Apr 2016.
Cole, Kristen. "Red light cameras may be causing more harm than good in New York City." PIX
11. 19 Nov 2015. Web. 10 Apr 2016.
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