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Speed and red light cameras save lives. They survive politics only when the tickets are fair.
Speed cameras cut injury crashes ~12% around Chicago's cameras, and cities that turned off red light cameras had 30% more fatal red light running crashes than expected. The number of U.S. communities with red light cameras has fallen by a third since 2012, and the objections that win are about who pays. California's speed camera law answers them.
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