Awesome report on the red-light cameras possibly costing Kansas City money by KMBC Channel 9's Micheal Mahoney.
Mahoney's reporting showed that the city isn't pulling in as much money from the tickets as it thought it would, and there's a huge ass backlog of tickets in muni court. It's so bad that the police have to pay officers overtime to review the tickets. And here's the part that will make you cringe:
If the cameras are costing the city money -- and causing accidents, like Hermann says -- why do we have them? Good job out of you, Kansas City.City Council member Deb Hermann said, "All those projections of money
for the city have disappeared. But somebody is making $45 a camera."
The city budget director, Troy Schulte, said that most of the incomefrom the fines are going to the vendor, American Traffic Solutions.
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to CW:
You're right, the main focus of the cameras should be to reduce the traffic violations not to make money. And how does the author know that it's causing more accidents? how about some facts please.
Why not make the yellow light last even shorter than it already does. That'll get them some more money.
But really, shouldn't the city be happy that people aren't running the red lights and the intersections are safe?
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