Remote control highway robbery
(from those supposed to protect us)
Only 7 of 65 traffic lights a red light ticket fighter measured had long enough yellow lights.
The speed limit on Collier Boulevard, where she was cited, is 45 mph. According to county guidelines, the yellow light should be 4.5 seconds.
Mogil said he tested it 15 times with an average of only 3.8 seconds.
The county bureaucrat in charge claimed the errors were “oversight”, but I wonder how many were too long a yellow? That’s an oversight that just doesn’t seem to happen.
As my title implies red light cameras are not about safety, but about money. I maintain that most traffic enforcement is about money not safety as well.
The only “safety” involved is for municipal, county and state coffers.
It pains me that on a typical morning driving my daughter to school, I’ll see 3 or 4 motorists pulled over paying their morning tax.
Yet.. at 2AM when thugs were stealing my truck, those retail coppers were home snug in bed.
It ain’t about us, it ain’t about safety, its all about taking money.