Study: Hated Red Light Cameras Reduce Accidents
While many motorists loathe the notion that they can be nabbed by a machine and not a cop, the lens we love to loathe appears to be helping solve crimes and prevent many crashes.
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While many motorists loathe the notion that they can be nabbed by a machine and not a cop, the lens we love to loathe appears to be helping solve crimes and prevent many crashes.
Red light cameras have received a green light from a Florida appeals court which has has upheld the right of cities to use cameras to catch and fine motorists who run red lights.
Drivers ticketed after they were caught on camera blowing through a red light in Hallandale Beach before July 2010 will be getting money back from the city.
Red light cameras are getting the green light -- again -- in Davie.
The town of Davie is expected to decide on Wednesday whether they will put the brakes on their red light camera program.
The town of Davie is expected to decide this week if they will go forward with their red light camera program.
Lights, Camera…Fine,.Cameras at nearly a half a dozen Coral Springs intersections set to catch drivers who run red lights began snapping pictures on Monday.
It could be lights out for red light cameras in Davie. That's because town leaders want a formal vote on cancelling the camera contract at next Wednesday's council meeting.
Miami Mayor Tomas Regalado unveiled his 2012 budget that has to fill a $54 million deficit. In order to fill the hole, Regalado proposed to furlough the city's work force for more than a month, according to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald.
Red light cameras were supposed to be a combination of watchdog and cash cows for cities that installed them. But, it turns out that cities like Miami which counted on millions in fines are out of luck.
No more red light cameras in Hialeah. The message comes after the city's mayor and the Hialeah City Council passed a repeal of the ordinance.
Red light cameras at two busy Coral Springs intersections are now 'live'.
Thousands of drivers who have paid tickets due to red-light cameras in Pembroke Pines will soon get some of their money back. Officials are preparing to issue refunds for tickets issued before a state law took effect in July 2010.
The debate over red light cameras intensified this week as one South Florida city moves to take down its' cameras and another will begin to put them up.
A double standard has led a Broward judge to rule that police can no longer ticket drivers caught running red lights.
The City of Pembroke Pines is no longer going to give red light runners a warning. Last month, four new red light cameras were activated but police allowed drivers time to get used to the new cameras and only gave warnings to violators, until now.
A bill that would repeal the law which allows city's to use cameras at intersections to catch red light runners has narrowly passed in the Florida House.
Drivers in Doral be warned, the City of Doral will begin taking photos of red light runners Friday, April 1st and this is no April Fool's joke.
Automated red-light cameras are getting the stop sign in both house of the Florida Legislature, as the Senate Transportation Committee voted 4-2 Tuesday to repeal the state law allowing the cameras.
Jumping on the 'red light' camera band wagon, the City of Doral will begin taking photos of red light runners next month as part of a new "Save A Life" program - a program which some say is merely another way to generate extra revenue for the city.
Red light cameras have been controversial since their inception a few years ago in Florida and the argument against them is getting louder by the day.
Pembroke Pines city leaders have found out that red light cameras set up at four intersections throughout the city aren't the cash cow they originally thought they would be.
One state senator wants to remove all red light cameras from state roads by July under a new bill, according to the News Service of Florida.
They have been seen all over the Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, but now red light cameras are making their first appearance on Key Biscayne.
