A press release from State Senator Dan Duffy:
A red light camera in Florida.
Senator Duffy’s “One Second for Safety” bill, SB3504, passed in the Senate 43 YEAS and 5 Nays
Senator Duffy’s “One Second for Safety” bill adds one second of yellow time to intersections which are equipped with Red Light Cameras. This bill is based on studies conducted by
- Texas A&M University
- Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS)
- Georgia
- Ohio and others.
All studies show accidents decrease anywhere from 35% to 92% by adding one second of yellow time at troubled intersections.
No studies dispute these facts.
This bill follows all federal traffic safety guidelines which state yellow light time must be between 3 – 6 seconds.
The bill will not allow cities and municipalities to reduce yellow light time at red light camera intersections.
Along with reducing accidents, the One Second for Safety bill will also drastically reduce red light camera tickets.
The City of Chicago and powerful Red Light Camera lobbyists strongly opposed the bill.
The Senate agreed with Senator Duffy’s safety measure and overwhelmingly supported the bill.
SB3504 will now move onto the House for a vote.
Please contact your House Representative and ask them to SUPPORT SB3504. A list of email addresses can be found at http://www.senatorduffy.com/, click on “G.A. Email List” at top of the page or a list of all contact information can be found by clicking on the representative’s name through the following link, http://www.ilga.gov/house/.
Sen. Duffy doesn’t understand the problem. If you stand at any corner with a red light, you’ll see drivers making right turns and rolling right around the corner with hardly slowing. (Same with stop signs, but no one is talking (yet) about cameras at stop signs; maybe this ought to be on the table.)
Probably few drivers are caught in that 0.01 second after a light turns from yellow to red.
Watch drivers “gun” it to get through on the yellow.
Look at the safe stopping distance and how drivers fail to stop when they have plenty of time and distance to do so.
Sure, lengthen the time for the yellow light, if the light is in a 45MPH or 55MPH speed zone.
Drivers are supposed to pay attention to their driving.
In a 30-40-45MPH zone, there is plenty of time to stop when the light changes from green to yellow.
The bill will also prevent towns from shortening the yellow lights to increase red light tickets.
Ridiculous!
Those tickets are each 100 dollars each!
Yawn….
Gus you sound like a broken record, correction, an idiotic broken record.
What do the scientific studies conducted by four or more universities say about this added delay of 1 second in the yellow light? Yeah, 35% to 92% reduction in accidents. That’s what this is all about right? Reducing accidents and NOT increasing revenue.
Doesn’t the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety have a dog in this fight? Are we to believe that they are for something that would actually – if we believe Gus – increase accidents rather than reduce them?
How about you put forth some evidence of your position Gus or crawl back under your little bridge and be a good, quiet troll?
1 second was added to the yellows in red light camera intersections in Georgia, citations decreased by 80%
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/27/2713.asp