Dutch model the way to go with traffic enforcement cameras

For free on the Internet, our traffic camera decision makers can follow the lessons learned by the Los Angeles City Council in the argument over keeping the red-light camera program. To not take advantage of the wealth of information and facts and data available in this L.A. City Council argument would be a seriously missed opportunity to be informed.

June 30, 2011 5:57 pm

For free on the Internet, our traffic camera decision makers can follow the lessons learned by the Los Angeles City Council in the argument over keeping the red-light camera program. To not take advantage of the wealth of information and facts and data available in this L.A. City Council argument would be a seriously missed opportunity to be informed.

If the purpose of photo enforcement is public safety, then I recommend the less costly Dutch model. When I lived in the Amsterdam area in the 1980s there were traffic cameras everywhere, but only a handful of actual photo devices within the cameras. The photo devices were moved around regularly so you never knew if you were subject to a photo or not.

Gary Vollmer, Redmond