Even after American Traffic Solutions was expelled from the city limits of Los Angeles this summer, red light cameras are still a hot topic of conversation in the Golden State.
SFGate.com, which is the online version of The San Francisco Chronicle, posted an article this week about just how much of a revenue generator dangerous red light cameras are for municipalities in California who still use the system.
Many communities in the state have ditched their camera programs when the alleged safety benefit is never realized, the tickets become impossible to collect on and the public revolts.
TheNewspaper.com is also getting some nice recognition for the wealth of facts and figures available on their site and the alternative perspective from the soundbite info given out by local network news.
InfoWars, which has a higher Alexa ratingthan MSNBC.com, also covered the topic:
In 2009, Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill in to law that would allow for toll roads in Arizona. So far, that Toll Road Authority has yet to be activated, but has been lurking like a dark menace.
Talks about converting U.S. I-15 into a Toll Road in Arizona had been going on in the secret chambers of AZ bureaucrats at ADOT until the Governor of Utah, Gary Herbert, caught wind of it.
He is now undermining Jan Brewer and ADOT’s backroom toll road talks. Quoted from the article on KTAR.com today:
Herbert said Arizona’s proposal is “a reflection of Arizona just trying to find dollars wherever they can because the budget is so upside down.”
The Utah governor said Arizona “cannot pick and choose which parts of our national interstate network it wants to maintain.”
Unlike Arizona, Utah is not in a budget deficit, nor does it allow for other government warfare against motorists like red light and speed cameras, which dotted Arizona’s highways for 2 years.
The subject of toll roads was also discussed by former Minnesota Governor on The Alex Jones Radio Show today. He described them as being like cancer.
Toll roads will be a tough sell in Arizona, where the freeway speed camera debacle made constant national news because of the backlash of groups like CameraFRAUD.
This is a fight that neither Brewer or ADOT is ready for, but thanks to Governor Herbert, we know they’re still plotting.
