Probably true, as it is a major threat to the power pimps in Sacramento.

I hear a report that they were killing Uber off, by calling the drivers employees and not independent contractors. It was in the Ca Labor Board a few weeks ago, and there was a lot of screaming over it. Uber may not be long for the California Empire..

Exactly, and Beaverton, OR was nailed for just those things.It's just a more efficient looting system...

3 times the pollution running engines at their worst, really friendly....I agree with you statement about the limits, but that is like telling the kids they can have ONE cookie. Hard to slap the hand of the looters

One would think, it seems a really good case. Just getting all the cats in one room is the problem...

maybe this is something that citizens can rally over and get the laws changed

There needs to be a general law limiting the amount of revenue that ANY unit of government can collect from fines to, say, 10% of its revenue. If it's more than that, that city or state has become predatory and an enemy of its people.

In my city the biggest abuse is parking tickets downtown. The city has marked whole neighborhoods where people work during the day as 2 hour zones, so we have to move our cars 3 times daily. This is supposedly to benefit the environment. MY ASS IT IS!

As they say, "follow the money"..

But don't they ignore them claiming sovereign immunity? Either that or the sheep just can't get together except to complain...

The NMA has studied these, and pretty much all of them are preying on safe drivers, and cause more accidents to boot.

Show me any intersection where there's a red-light camera that's making money, and I'll show you at least one of these facts:
1) The yellow light is set too short, and increasing it by half a second will make so many of the violations go away that it won't pay to operate the camera any more;
2) The camera operator has moved the vehicle-detector loop so that in at least some conditions, it is impossible to get the light to turn green without committing a violation; and/or
3) Nearly all of the tickets are for right-on-red-without-quite-stopping, which is not an unsafe practice and should be legalized.

The accidents the cameras cause, of course, are people slamming on the brakes and getting rear-ended because of the short yellow.

But Texas has that awful, predatory "Driver Responsibility Surcharge". I wouldn't want to move there while it stays in place.

Legislation to get rid of the cameras passed the TX Senate earlier this year, but it seems to have died. Very disappointing. I haven't met one person who likes them.

In California, the cost of gas, the taxes, the price of cars, and the chance of huge traffic fines leads to one thing:"Uber here we come!"

I've been tagged by a couple, and I was not a happy person when I got the bills in the mail. One of them was when I was following my real estate agent and she ran a yellow so I hurried along and did, too--I got tagged but she didn't. Gah! I agree with you on both points (but make that to monitor anyone they feel like). The rationale was to improve safety, but evidence didn't prove their point. In fact, when one went off at night, the camera blinded everyone driving with a huge flash. It is all about revenue. State legislation to get them banned passed the senate but then died.

There are several cities that had to take them down. Not sure but I think there are only 4 cities in Texas that are allowed to use them. There was and maybe still is one in Richardson that they would post every month the amount of fines collected via this camera. Texans are very bad about running red lights.

Of course. But that defeats the whole idea of redistribution of wealth they love.

Are they that bad? I would think Texans wouldn't put up with this stuff..

Come on to Texas

I'm surprised more people and businesses aren't moving out of the Republic of California. If I was him, I'd move out ASAP. Create his own gulch and live the way it should be.

Traffic fines should not go to the people who assess them. If there are going to be fines, they should go to something worthwhile that is NOT government- lets say serious disease research.

Californians should also pay for "Welcome To Our Wonderful Utopia" signs.
Glad one of my brothers became retried and moved out of that state of delusions.

I kind of agree. Let California go totally socialist- your paycheck goes to the state, and they send you what THEY think you need to live and keep working. In fact, they should subtract what THEY think you should spend on health care, insurance, and other mandated stuff. Everything else is split up into electronic shoeboxes, from which you can only buy as much as they say and only where they say you can buy it. Lets get this over with