Barry Bridges at the Gaston Gazette blogs about increasing evidence of these things having ? mirabile dictu! ? terrible unintended consequences, including:

  • Inducing local governments to shortening the lights’ yellow cycle in order to more quickly achieve the red cycle (which they, of course, would see as their “green” cycle)
  • Causing more rear-end accidents
  • Ticketing people following funeral processions and making legal right turns on red.

Bridges also includes a link to a site that keeps track of red-light camera locations: http://www.photoenforced.com/nc.html.