Have anyone of you had the misfortune?  Look out.  It's coming your way!

It is all the rage here in Los Angeles and now, our city in all its wisdom, wants to expand the program. 

In one video ticketing location I'm aware of, a random stop sign was installed at the same time as the camera.  Not at an intersection.  Not on a city street or in a neighborhood but in a park.  No cross street.  Cars and motorcycles are already traveling at a snail's pace -- 10 to 15 mph.  Then there it is.  The stop sign.  If you're a regular, you don't expect it.  That's the plan!  if you're new to the area, you wouldn't expect it.  So everyone gets the ticket!  $125. per offense.

And that's just one sinister plot safety plan.  Another good idea in California is random speed strips on highways and by-ways with adjacent gotcha vid-cams.  So, this LA Times article asks the question:  Is it for safety or revenue.  Duh... 

 To think, there was a time I was more L.A. gung-ho than the local Chamber of Commerce.  No mas.

Susan

L.A. wants to double red-light camera program: safety measure or revenue generator?

They've raised the price of parking tickets. They've added fees for moving violations. They've jacked up the price of "fix-it" tickets.

Now officials might have found another way to generate revenues from naughty drivers.

Los Angeles is considering a major expansion of its red-light traffic camera program, which officials report netted more than $6 million last year after expenses. The number of intersections covered by the cameras could eventually double in L.A. to 64, The Times' Rich Connell reported today.

What do you think? Should the red-light camera program expand? Share your thoughts below.

-- Shelby Grad

Photo credit: Marc Martin / Los Angeles Times

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Wow, a hundred and twenty five dollar fine. I (the motorcycle cop claimed) got a yellow light to red change ticket and the fine was $365. I had a clean license. 3 times the LA ticket amount....

That sucks to have lost your pro LA opinion. Over what period of time has your opinion been in decline? 2 years, 10, 20 ? Main reason(s)?

Are other folks you know feeling the same way ?

I always liked the Randy Newman song ' I Love L A '
 

I can't get too bummed out as I don't drive that much boot I can see how others would.

 The imp in me imagines a clear plastic folder fixed over ones plate so a facsimile of the plate of some person in a place of authority, or for that matter anyone you don't like, could be briefly slipped in prior to doing something you know would draw a ticket.  That would be wrong though, wrong and evil.

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

Bleep you, & bleep the establishment, and bleep all of you who are trying to make me part of the unestablished establishment.

I always think of Larry David from Curb Your Enthusiasm when I hear stories of tickets via cameras.

Jordan .

ok... 

I'm telling you Frank it was a gross unwarranted ticket that i received. The cop was going for my out of state plates and used me to hit his quota. His next stop? Duncan Doughnuts. The light was still yellow. The fact that this kind of vulture policing is alive and well makes me and I should hope you cringe. Here I was on a nice ride  to Fairfax (my old home town) sunny 72 degrees f., the delicious breakfast I had that morning, in fact my whole nice law abiding morning was jackbooted to the ground and my whole morning was turned sour by this travesty of justice. and the real killer was when i found out how expensive the ticket was some time later

edit: to correct spelling of unwarranted  

Sorry on the Frank thing , i was thinking of that other fellow we have here.

Thanks for your response [ serious part].... I'm going to try and put what happened to me over two years ago in the rear window and get on with my life. 

Don't turn me in for widening the topic. I was just trying to contrast cops v. not cops.

Jordan .

Yeah we shouldnt speed but how much is too much?? Here in the UK, we have had this shit going on with speed cameras for a few years now. £ times I have been caught by fixed cameras, £60 each time and 3 penalty points on my licence.....B******s I was Caught doing 70 in a 60 on tyhe main road up the centre of Scotland, on a dual Carriageway also...hmmmmm, the others were also at the upper end of the scale

One of our problems here is the amount of speed limits ranging from 5mph up to 70 mph and everything in between......Grrrrrr