Now here's a magnificent dose of scathing irony to kick off your morning--several city councils (the current list of likely affected includes Bracknell Forest, Gloucestershire, Kent, Devon, Hertfordshire and Plymouth) in Great Britain are moving to shut down their speed cameras.  Why? Due to lack of funds. Where before, the citizenry were decrying the devices as ...

Remember when, not so long ago, I was talking about the guy who killed a speed camera operator while he sat in his operator van out in Phoenix?  Well, as it turns out, there's an update in that trial. The sixty nine year old man, Thomas Patrick Destories by name, was found competent to stand trial ...

Excuse me while I try valiantly to rise above the intense feelings of schadenfreude that I'm having for the San Francisco government. Seems they recently put in those horrible red light cameras in a bid to raise more money promote public safety and well-being, and they brought in about a million bucks in fines too! And everything ...

But there's a grieving father who begs to differ. So the current sheriff of Pinal County in Arizona, a guy with the thoroughly unlikely name of Paul Babeu, believes that red light cameras don't actually save any lives.  He says: “Guess what? They (accidents) have decreased all across America and the majority of America doesn't use photo ...

So coming hot on the heels of yesterday's newsy bit where the LAPD was having the devil's own time trying to get those darned cameras that were recommended for installation back in 1991, comes the announcement that Los Angeles authorities want to DOUBLE the size and scale of their red light camera project. And with good ...

If you're reading this and you've got occasion to drive in Washington State, know this--the red light cameras that have been operating for the last little while now will be fully live and operational starting tomorrow, which means they'll be mailing tickets instead of gentle reminders. Just in case you're wondering where you'd like to find ...

The word out of Louisiana is that Jefferson Parish (a parish down there is roughly the same as a county anywhere else) is looking to get rid of its red-light cameras because they're so tainted they practically steam.  Check THIS out, from nola.com: Redflex Traffic Systems of Phoenix, Ariz., arranged to pay Bryan Wagner, a former ...

Whoa. Mansfield, Ohio, you got a whole new reason to smile today.  Seems the city council turned down, and unanimously, no less, a proposal to install red light cameras in the city. Redflex, one of those camera companies that seems to be travelling the country looking for municipalities poor and / or desperate enough to install the ...

I may not like speed cameras, I may want them gone pretty much everywhere I hear about them, I may think they do absolutely no good for anybody but desperate state budgets, but even I think this is going way too far. In Arizona, apparently, someone took potshots at a van containing a speed camera and ...

Remember how we were talking about Arizona, and the troubles they've been having with speed cameras? How the governor was looking to ditch them entirely because no one pays the tickets anyway? Well, it seems that the company BEHIND the speed cameras, who would be fairly likely to have some interest in the operation, is getting ...