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The cities in question are really small towns: West Miami is about 7000 people, per the article. That makes the statistics a little bit less astonishing: these

The cities in question are really small towns: West Miami is about 7000 people, per the article. That makes the statistics a little bit less astonishing: these aren't huge towns or cities that are substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes; they're small bedroom communities on busy roads between nearby big cities.

gruez 2y ago
>these aren't huge towns or cities that are substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes; they're small bedroom communities on busy roads between nearby big cities Those aren't really contradictory. You can be a "small bedroom community" but still be "substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes".
- woodruffw 2y ago
  Sure. And given that it's Florida, they probably are. But I still think the headline here gives a misleading impression: a town with a small tax base but a busy road is naturally going to get a larger fraction of revenue from a red-light camera than a town with a larger tax base would.
zdragnar 2y ago
No kidding. The article content really doesn't support the title at all. A town of 7000 people issued 3000 citations in a year, but the town itself has a major road in it connection other larger towns. Even given that, it isn't the largest source of income for the city (property taxes are #1). There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights.
- shiroiushi 2y ago
  >There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights. That's hard to do safely when they shorten the yellow-light time so that you have no warning that the light will turn red.
- beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
  Might work where you live. A huge portion of my city has foreign plates or straight up illegals driving, they don't give a fuck about a camera and can, will, and have totaled my car for playing the safe stop fuck fuck game. Nope nope nope if the intersection is clear I'm not getting my car totalled again by the tailgater behind me just to satisfy the law.
  - worik 2y ago
    > safe stop fuck fuck game The what?
    - beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
      Strike that, legal stop
    - adamomada 2y ago
      If you have to ask, big boy, you can’t afford it
    - deleted 2y ago
      [deleted]
- Scoundreller 2y ago
  > stop driving through red lights I'm with you. Make it impossible by replacing them with roundabouts and traffic circles. Can't drive through the red light if there isn't one taps forehead
  - zdragnar 2y ago
    I can't replace intersections. I can stop for red lights, though.
matwood 2y ago
FL gonna FL. Route 301 was notorious for nearly 2 decades for revenue driven speed traps. https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-travel-and-tourism-7521ea2bed5644a48b423ef2f18ecbe2 https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-...

gruez 2y ago

>these aren't huge towns or cities that are substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes; they're small bedroom communities on busy roads between nearby big cities Those aren't really contradictory. You can be a "small bedroom community" but still be "substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes".

woodruffw 2y ago
Sure. And given that it's Florida, they probably are. But I still think the headline here gives a misleading impression: a town with a small tax base but a busy road is naturally going to get a larger fraction of revenue from a red-light camera than a town with a larger tax base would.

zdragnar 2y ago

No kidding. The article content really doesn't support the title at all. A town of 7000 people issued 3000 citations in a year, but the town itself has a major road in it connection other larger towns. Even given that, it isn't the largest source of income for the city (property taxes are #1). There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights.

shiroiushi 2y ago
>There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights. That's hard to do safely when they shorten the yellow-light time so that you have no warning that the light will turn red.
beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
Might work where you live. A huge portion of my city has foreign plates or straight up illegals driving, they don't give a fuck about a camera and can, will, and have totaled my car for playing the safe stop fuck fuck game. Nope nope nope if the intersection is clear I'm not getting my car totalled again by the tailgater behind me just to satisfy the law.
- worik 2y ago
  > safe stop fuck fuck game The what?
  - beaeglebeachedd 2y ago
    Strike that, legal stop
  - adamomada 2y ago
    If you have to ask, big boy, you can’t afford it
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
Scoundreller 2y ago
> stop driving through red lights I'm with you. Make it impossible by replacing them with roundabouts and traffic circles. Can't drive through the red light if there isn't one taps forehead
- zdragnar 2y ago
  I can't replace intersections. I can stop for red lights, though.

matwood 2y ago

FL gonna FL. Route 301 was notorious for nearly 2 decades for revenue driven speed traps. https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-travel-and-tourism-7521ea2bed5644a48b423ef2f18ecbe2 https://apnews.com/domestic-news-domestic-news-general-news-...