Road Warrior: Weighing red-light camera options
Sunday, November 17, 2013
By JOHN CICHOWSKI
ROAD WARRIOR COLUMNIST
As the countdown to the new year begins, New Jersey motorists can look forward to a big showdown that has nothing to do with the super pigskin battle at MetLife Stadium in February or the midterm tussle for congressional seats next November.
This battle focuses on a question that has divided 6 million licensees: Should cameras that ticket drivers who fail to stop at troublesome red-light intersections continue to operate, or should they be scrapped?
By December 2014, the question should be settled once and for all, when a five-year pilot program in 25 New Jersey communities is scheduled to end. It’s up to the governor and the Legislature to decide: Write off these 76 cameras as a faulty safety experiment that has succeeded mostly in raising ticket revenue for communities? Or continue it — and perhaps add more communities and more cameras — in an effort to reduce injuries and deaths caused by highly dangerous side-impact crashes?
Or is there room for compromise?
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