It’s a silly bureaucratic process designed by house legislators who hate cameras. They’re pissed because, despite voting several times to ban the things, greedy cities convinced the state rep from Irving to sneak a red light camera authorization provision into an unrelated bill — nobody noticed until it was too late.

WFAA/Dallas Morning News (both Belo Corp) are in the pocket of ACS. Their “reporting” reflects it.

I just knew that people would start slamming on the brakes (likely because yellows are strangely short at camera enforced lights).

It’s always fun to be proven correct.

“In the end, the need to fill Dallas’ city coffers ruled the day”

This will spread everywhere because money is what the local govermenet politicos will see.

That is the problem with red-light cameras; well, that and the fact that it does seem to get closer to “Big Brother”.

If these cameras are to be installed, race shouldn’t be a factor; only the number of violations should be considered. What will be interesting is if the data shows (or has shown) that these intersections with the most violations are in predominately minority neighborhoods.

Will enforcement rule out of political correctness???