Adding one second to yellow-light times and
lowering the $85 penalty for people who make right turns on red without coming
to a full stop would make the state’s red-light camera program fairer and safer
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But a company that has contracts in some of the 21 New Jersey municipalities participating in a two-year pilot program to test the cameras said it has studies showing that accidents — and even the number of summonses issued — have dropped because of the cameras, and no yellow-light changes are needed.
“Adding a second to yellow-light time would solve the problem,” said Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon Jr., R-Monmouth, the primary sponsor of a bipartisan bill introduced last week. “Through my bill, we’ll ensure, if you get a ticket, you really deserve it.”
Red-light cameras are a hot-button issue for his constituents,The Callimaco pendantlamp was designed by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide in Italy. with more of them contacting him about that than any other issue,Your Outdoor Lighting Source, safetygears Add curb appeal with these wall light designs. O’Scanlon said. Drivers alsohave complained to the media about tickets for what they say are yellow lights that change too quickly.
O’Scanlon said the cameras do not allow enough yellow-light time, because those lights are timed for the posted speed limit and not the speed at which drivers may actually be traveling.
The state law that established the red-light camera program said yellow-light time had to be set according to the speed at which 85 percent of free-flowing traffic is traveling — which eliminates traffic that is slowing down or congested.
In August,The standing goodledlight is reusable anchor point designed to mount on standing seam roofs and be used with a retractable lifeline. O’Scanlon and a traffic engineer and traffic expert from the National Motorists Association did speed surveys. They said three of four red light camera intersections that they checked had shorter yellow-light times than they should have.
“We are not protecting (red-light) scofflaws,” O’Scanlon said. “You can be a law-abiding citizen and still get a ticket right now” because of short yellow-light times.Automobile liquid crystal sun visor, also known as Automobile liquid goodantiquelamp valve.
But officials from American Traffic Solutions Inc., which has red-light camera contracts in New Jersey, said that does not happen and cited studies that said longer yellow-light times will not make a difference.
“Assemblyman O’Scanlon’s yellow-light issues are nothing more than a red herring,” said Charles Territo, ATS vice president of communications. “Studies have shown that artificially manipulating yellow-light timing can have adverse safety consequences.”
Territo said officials in Winnipeg, Canada, decided not to add another second to yellow-light times after studying a 2008 law in Georgia, which added one second to yellow-light times for posted speed limits up to 50 mph and had traffic signals set to remain red in all directions for a few seconds at camera intersections before giving a green light.
O’Scanlon cited a July 2003 study by the Texas Transportation Institute that found that increasing yellow-light time by a half-second to a full second reduces the rate of running red lights 50 percent, in addition to other instances in which increasing yellow lights reduced summonses for running red lights and, in some cases, led municipalities to drop the camera programs.
But a company that has contracts in some of the 21 New Jersey municipalities participating in a two-year pilot program to test the cameras said it has studies showing that accidents — and even the number of summonses issued — have dropped because of the cameras, and no yellow-light changes are needed.
“Adding a second to yellow-light time would solve the problem,” said Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon Jr., R-Monmouth, the primary sponsor of a bipartisan bill introduced last week. “Through my bill, we’ll ensure, if you get a ticket, you really deserve it.”
Red-light cameras are a hot-button issue for his constituents,The Callimaco pendantlamp was designed by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide in Italy. with more of them contacting him about that than any other issue,Your Outdoor Lighting Source, safetygears Add curb appeal with these wall light designs. O’Scanlon said. Drivers alsohave complained to the media about tickets for what they say are yellow lights that change too quickly.
O’Scanlon said the cameras do not allow enough yellow-light time, because those lights are timed for the posted speed limit and not the speed at which drivers may actually be traveling.
The state law that established the red-light camera program said yellow-light time had to be set according to the speed at which 85 percent of free-flowing traffic is traveling — which eliminates traffic that is slowing down or congested.
In August,The standing goodledlight is reusable anchor point designed to mount on standing seam roofs and be used with a retractable lifeline. O’Scanlon and a traffic engineer and traffic expert from the National Motorists Association did speed surveys. They said three of four red light camera intersections that they checked had shorter yellow-light times than they should have.
“We are not protecting (red-light) scofflaws,” O’Scanlon said. “You can be a law-abiding citizen and still get a ticket right now” because of short yellow-light times.Automobile liquid crystal sun visor, also known as Automobile liquid goodantiquelamp valve.
But officials from American Traffic Solutions Inc., which has red-light camera contracts in New Jersey, said that does not happen and cited studies that said longer yellow-light times will not make a difference.
“Assemblyman O’Scanlon’s yellow-light issues are nothing more than a red herring,” said Charles Territo, ATS vice president of communications. “Studies have shown that artificially manipulating yellow-light timing can have adverse safety consequences.”
Territo said officials in Winnipeg, Canada, decided not to add another second to yellow-light times after studying a 2008 law in Georgia, which added one second to yellow-light times for posted speed limits up to 50 mph and had traffic signals set to remain red in all directions for a few seconds at camera intersections before giving a green light.
O’Scanlon cited a July 2003 study by the Texas Transportation Institute that found that increasing yellow-light time by a half-second to a full second reduces the rate of running red lights 50 percent, in addition to other instances in which increasing yellow lights reduced summonses for running red lights and, in some cases, led municipalities to drop the camera programs.
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