Virginia: Proposal Eliminates Safety Check on Red Light Cameras
January 20, 2009 by Hersey · 2 Comments
Virginia legislative proposal allows cities to use the shortest possible yellow time at red light camera intersections.
A bill introduced last week in the General Assembly quietly seeks to eliminate a significant motorist protection built into Virginia’s existing red light camera law. The proposal of a pair of Democratic state delegates representing Virginia Beach, Joseph F. Bouchard and Robert W. Mathieson, would delete just three words from that statute, but the change would have wide-ranging effects. Under current law,
cities that want to install traffic cameras must first submit a detailed engineering justification to state transportation experts.
