Jim Lissner, crusading anti-red light camera activist (www.highwayrobberty.net), reports that “ticketing is way, way up” in recent months in Culver City.
An explanation was not readily available for the dramatic spike although the Police Dept. last week announced an expansion of its controversial red light camera program.
“The current rate of issuance,” says Mr. Lissner, “places Culver City as No. 1 in the state of California.”
Stunningly, the monthly number of so-called approved violations for both April and May is twice as high as the total violations in January of last year.
The South Bay-based Mr. Lissner has been closely tracking red light camera trends and violations since they exploded across California around the turn of the century.
What is currently the most perilous red-light camera intersection for drivers?
“In April,” Mr. Lissner says, “issuance at southbound Sepulveda at Green Valley went up more than tenfold. There were 1317 tickets issued in that month alone while in all of 2015, that location had a total of 1558 tickets.”
He warns that the activation of the eight new and relocated cameras proposed during the budget hearing could increase the approved violations by a whopping one-third, to 5000 tickets a month.
Mr. Lissner obtained the following monthly totals of red-light camera violations from the Police Dept.:
2015
January…1725
February…1983
March … 2432
April … 2258
May … 2299
June … 2266
July … 1585
August … 1760
September … 1614
October … 1933
November …1265
December … 2223
2016
January … 2100
February … 2323
March … 3133
April … 3455
May … 3685 (Mr. Lissner’s estimate based on the first 23 days of the month.)
The solution is STOP RUNNING RED LIGHTS. Drive the speed limit and stop for red lights and pedestrians. If you don’t, you get a ticket. In extreme cases, if you don’t you get killed or kill others. If you do, you get to your destination alive and one 1 minute later. Pretty simple.