Study: Wrecks increase at red-light cameras sites
The number of crashes at Houston intersections with red-light cameras doubled in the first year after their installation, according to a city-financed study released Monday.
Traffic etiquette is emergent, unplanned, spontaneous. Traffic edicts like speed limits, complete stops at stop signs and other nonsense interferes with the traffic etiquette that has evolved over the past decades.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise but the safest roads tend to be the least restrictive.
The study shows the safest period on Montana’s Interstate highways was when there were no daytime speed limits or enforceable speed laws…The doubling of fatal accidents occurred after Montana implemented its new safety program; complete with federal funding, artificially low speed limits and full enforcement.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Update form my local news: Another report says the intersections with no cameras had an even bigger increases in wrecks. So up on the city council’s ballot is a plan to increase the amount of red cameras. Fun times.