In the June 24 edition of Redmond Reporter, a letter writer from Woodinville argues against Redmond’s traffic cameras, saying they are mainly money makers for the City of Redmond and citing that more than 90 percent of the violations recorded each month is for vehicles failing to stop for a sufficient length of time before executing a right turn.

No mention is made about the other 10 percent of violations which, incidentally, amounted to about 450 tickets (based on figures given in an earlier edition of the Reporter.) Four hundred fifty moving violations in a month at camera-operated intersections isn’t, in my judgment,  an insignificant number. But, he argues, it’s strictly about revenue.

Disregarding for a moment those 450 violations for reasons other than rolling stops, I wonder what the Woodinville writer thinks would be an acceptable pause time for a rolling stop. One-fourth of a second? One-half of a second? Three forths of a second? At what speed? Three mph; five mph; or 10 mph?

I experienced a bad accident (total loss to my car) a few years ago when the other driver failed to stop or even slow down at a controlled intersection. I don’t want that to happen again.

Rather than make a rolling stop, isn’t it just as easy to come to a complete stop? No significant time lost; no hazard created; no fine received for a rolling stop; and no revenue collected for the City of Redmond.

Nobody’s safety is placed in jeopardy.

But, I do have a question about the operation of the red-light cameras.  I wonder, for how long an interval of time must one remain stopped and motionless before turning right on red without being nabbed by a camera if other traffic is not an issue? One second? Five seconds? I wish I knew.

Ray Aholt, Redmond