Red Light Cameras

So I recently had a bit of luck before the Missouri Supreme Court. The red light cameras in Springfield, MO were shut down earlier this month as a result.

Our community once again has an opportunity to lead the nation in traffic safety innovations, much as we did with the diverging diamond intersection. Now that we have joined the growing list of communities to reject red light cameras, we can turn our attention to more effective strategies for avoiding t-bone collisions: flashing the green light 2-3 seconds before it turns yellow, extending yellow light times, and painting a stripe on the intersection approach at that distance calculated by the product of the yellow light time and the speed limit (thus, if you aren't speeding and you haven't hit the line by the time the light turns yellow, you stop; if you have passed the line, you drive on). Each of these innovations are simple, cheap, are hardly offensive to the Constitution, can be used at virtually all intersections instead of just those we can afford to pay some British company to spy on, and they actually make us better drivers. Flashing greens, longer yellows and the approach stripe can actually prevent misjudgments leading to a run red instead of merely punishing after the fact.

I am confident the City will do the right thing and pay back the money it had no basis to collect in the first place, but just in case, here is a website we are setting up for the class action we filed in the Circuit Court of Greene County, Missouri: www.redlightlawsuit.com

Best,
Jason