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TO: lblakey@blakey-agnew.com, support@lhj.com, info@stopredlightrunning.com

SUBJECT: The National Campaign to Stop Red Light Running

BODY:

Ms. Leslie Blakey & National Campaign to Stop Red Light Running,

I encourage you to abandon this Campaign. While encouraged in the name of saving lives and preventing accidents

Red Light cameras are often thinly veiled attempts at revenue collection, many times the technology doesn’t work, and that crashes and several studies have shown the opposite of your claims that accidents (both injury and non-injury) INCREASE with the installation of cameras.

For information on the increases in accident and injuries I encourage you to view the studies published by researchers at University of South Florida College of Public Health which showed that “Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums” (emphasis mine) (http://hscweb3.hsc.usf.edu/health/now/?p=404) or the Virginia DOT which showed that “researchers found a “definite” increase in rear-end accidents and only a “possible” decrease in angle accidents. Most importantly, the net effect was that more injuries happened after cameras are installed.” (emphasis mine) (http://www.thenewspaper.com/rlc/news.asp?ID=117), likewise Portland, OR saw a 140% increase in accidents after cameras were installed (http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/upgrade/2420766.html). An investigation in Cleveland has shown no significant decrease in accidents at camera enforced intersections, while some intersection did show a dramatic decrease those were offset by other intersections that show equally dramatic increases. (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/13333662/detail.html)

To read more about the problems with the technology, or the operators of the technology you can read more about Cleveland where motorist were able to prove the technology was flawed (http://www.newsnet5.com/news/10901008/detail.html). Many cities are shortening the length of yellow lights at intersections, in order to increase revenue, at the expense of safety (http://www.leftlanenews.com/six-us-cities-tamper-with-traffic-cameras-for-profit.html) The LA Times Reports that 80% of people ticketed by red light cameras are people making a right on red, and Mark Burkey, a researcher at North Carolina A&T State University who has studied photo enforcement collision patterns, said that he has never seen any studies even suggest that the cameras “would be a good safety intervention to reduce right-turning accidents” (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-redlight19-2008may19,0,3445983,full.story)

I do agree the driving can be dangerous, and the results of people running red lights are often tragic, but trying to force a nationwide adoption of a failed, and often corrupt, program, is not only a bad idea, but morally reprehensible. I encourage you to continue working on ways to save lives, an honorable quest, but please try to find new, creative solutions they may be proven successful. I will be sharing this letter publicly in as many places as possible, and will also post your response, if you wish, wherever I am able to where my letter is published.

Thank You,

Xaq Fixx

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I am new to Bureaucrash and I’m eager and willing to help anyone who needs it. Contact me at: freedoms.cost@gmail.com if you are in or near DC.
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Recent postings on the internet claim that I claimed that “Violent police attacked my family home.” That did not happen. I, Gerard Beloin, never said that. What I have said is that law enforcement officers have threatened to kill me. I have that on tape. The recordings can be linked to here.

http://schoolroofingscam.blogspot.com/2008/02/roofing-manufacturer-who-stands-up-to.html

Gerard Beloin