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While Automated Red Light Enforcement Transportation Enhancements (ARLE) Grant Program projects can be worthwhile, no municipality should accept the money, since it came from red-light cameras.

The cameras should be banned in Pennsylvania.

If we had best-practice engineering and enforcement, then practically nobody would ever “run” a light. Most people do not “run” a light on purpose. Taking money from these grants sends the message that all this is OK. Please note that the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a story in 2017 saying that some of these cams had accuracy rates of 3% and the PPA was under FBI investigation.

It was reported multiple times that crashes went up in Philadelphia at red-light camera intersections.

Nationwide, yellows may be too short, people can be cited a split-second after the lights change, for stopping over the stop line, or a non-complete stop for a right-on-red turn. Who can defend this setup?

All you need are speed limits set to the 85th percentile free-flowing traffic speed, longer yellows, decent length all-red intervals, and sensors to keep an all-red if someone enters late – then no crashes!

Lights can also be synced and use sensors to change them and know where cars are. After simple changes are made, only egregious violators should ever be cited.

James Sikorski Jr.

PA Advocate, National Motorists Association