>I do support red light cameras. Mostly because I'm a pedestrian that listens to music when walking around town. I have nearly been hit by careless drivers on m

>I do support red light cameras. Mostly because I'm a pedestrian that listens to music when walking around town. I have nearly been hit by careless drivers on more than one occasion. Then you should not support red light cameras. Instead, you should support longer yellow lights, or accelerating to beat them. Studies have pretty well nailed down that traffic light cameras do not reduce accidents. Any benefit they have as a deterrent is canceled by drivers slamming on the brakes at yellow lights. Worse, many local governments have been caught illegally shortening yellow lights to increase ticket revenue from traffic light cameras. That's particularly awful because increasing the duration of the yellow light has been shown to be one of the most reliable ways to reduce traffic light accidents.