Red Light Cameras Cause Accidents
Over at the Reason blog - Out of Control - they note that red light cameras are good at raising revenue but are also good at causing accidents. Quoting from The Newspaper.com:
Red light cameras in Anne Arundel County, Maryland failed to reduce accidents in five years of use. A set of five cameras were set up in the communities of Arnold, Pasadena, Parole, and Crofton in 2000, but a comparison of accident statistics five years before and five years after their installation shows accidents have increased beyond the ten percent increase in traffic volume.
Upon installation, the cameras caused an immediate 40 percent increase in rear-end collisions from 53 in 1999 to 74 in 2000. Overall accidents were up between 25 percent and 41 percent from 107 in 1999 to 134 in 2001 and 151 in 2002.
There are more links to other articles about how many states are dropping the program after seeing the results. Leave it to Hawaii to be so far behind the curve that we are trying to get them when other states have already learned their lesson and are getting rid of them.