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Scarce data makes new TXDoT study on red light cameras suspect

I stopped following the red light camera issue closely on Grits after I left ACLU of Texas, primarily because nobody was paying me to track the topic, which involves a lot of local fights and bitter back-room legislative controversies among hardball-playing, money grubbing combatants. But I've followed the issue enough in the past to be surprised when a reader sent me the link to a Houston Chronicle story which reported today that:Red-light cameras apparently reduced overall collisions at dozens of monitored intersections across Texas, according to a state transportation study. The report, released today by the Texas Department of Transportation, concludes that crashes declined overall by 30 percent at a sampling intersections, many of them in Houston...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 02, 2008 (boomark / email).