The College Station City Council is contemplating installing red light cameras and held a forum with Terry Childers, deputy city manager on November 20.  Research is ongoing and an ordinance making running red lights a civil penalty if reported by camera is being considered.  If the civil penalty occurs it would mot affect insurance rates unles a police officer was present.

According to Glen Brown, city manager for College Station, there is no timeline in place currently.  The next step is to send a request to potential vendor and then give them a month to six weeks to develop proposals.  Brown stated that at the earliest, cameras could start to appear over the summer.

Brown went on to state that, while interest is definately there, it's not a definate project at this point.  "all the research we have done indicates that this is something we ought to consider.  The statistics that we have show that the cities that have used these have experienced a substanial decrease in the number of accidents at the intersections that have them.  And that is really what this is all about-preventing accidents".

Though laudible for accident prevention, no doubt additional monies for College Station wouldn't be the least of their motivations either.  Red light cameras in several Texas cities have made literally millions for their city munipalities. 

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2006
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This report says that the red light cameras don't work.  This one says they do.

I believe the former is supported by data and the latter, while coming from a governmental authority, is not 
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Brian, interesting studies.  I have a background in accident investigation and I will say that an increase in rear end collisions could actually be a good thing.  Rear end collisions rarely produce life threatening injuries where side impact are some of the most severe...so, it might not be the number of collisions but the severity in which it helps.  Of course, it will help their pocketbooks even more....
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Now THAT is some heady stuff, Chris.  Talk about your Freakonomics!  The accepted high accident ratio of rear end collisions saves more lives than the less common but more deadly side collisions.  The data supporting the "against" argument is actually more conclusive for the "for" argument.

That is...if your goal is to save lives.  Which it should be.  Thanks for the reply.  I learned something useful today! 
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