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Silent Majority on Red-Light Cameras?

Via online only Seattle Pi.com comes an interesting tale of tentative success with red-light cameras.

This bit stood out:

A random telephone survey of 400 people last August showed an 85 percent approval rate, Quinn said. And city officials continue to get unsolicited recommendations for intersections to install new cameras.

I don’t know the specifics of that survey, but given that nary a day goes by that I don’t hear the old charges about cameras “increasing accidents” — without identifying the much more serious crashes that same cameras have reduced — and being simple revenue-raising tools for municipalities, I was surprised by the high level of seeming support.

Or maybe it’s a Seattle thing (I once received a jaywalking warning there by an officer in blue).

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Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 5:48 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Forget Radar and Fancy Driver Assist Technology, the Parking Future Has Been Lurking in a Junker in Cairo

From Liveleak, via BoingBoing.

I’m in busy/travel mode, hence the sporadic, short posts as of late…

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Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 5:31 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Safety Film of the Week

OK, it’s another one that’s not real, but I couldn’t resist this take on drugs not be consumed while driving.

(Horn honk to Richard)

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Posted on Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 at 5:28 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

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