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.