Thank you. Running red lights is worse than speeding in my book. Running red lights is a fatality waiting to happen. I'm fine if they put cameras at every intersection.
Metro, school buses, police, city vehicles, and sheriffs all caught running red lights: http://blogs.chron.com/cityhall/archives/2007/05/post_3.html Put up more cameras!
The school buses by where I work (Greenspoint) drive like animals, speeding, running red lights, turning left from the middle lane, cutting across 3 lanes of traffic. So do the Metro buses.
I was driving down a road one day on a 3 lane road when a school bus on the far right line cut all the way across the 3 lanes to do a u-turn in the other three lanes. She had her stop sign on so I guess that made it alright.
I love those things. I believe red-light runners are behind only drunk drivers in accident fatalities. And there is lots of red-light running in Houston. I don't think the cameras on top of the lights are related to this program. As you can see from the shots ima_drummer posted, the camera is way behind the intersection. My coworker's husband got a ticket from these things. They were sent two still photos (one showing the position of the car when the light turned red and one in the intersection) and a short video-clip of the infraction. It was pretty cool.
To be clear, I don't have a problem with the cameras. I don't run red lights, so they don't affect me at all. I'm actually FOR them, if you want to know the truth. But to see cops, sheriffs, school buses, METRO buses and city workers running them makes me sick. Talk about hypocrisy. I'm waiting for the day when the Chief of Police or the Mayor or some other city official gets caught running one. You know it's coming...
I'm not sure about here, but recently in Dallas, they've made the cops and what not liable if they do this. Of course, the cops were pissed.
