Originally Posted by
navyasw02
Please. I dont know where you live, but here in CA even cops are getting laid off. They dont have enough time or manpower to work the real crimes let alone spend the manpower on a biker running a light.
At least in Austin, TX, the red light cameras really don't have much to do with the police at all -- it's run by the city rather than the police department, and the tickets they mail out are civil rather than criminal things -- like parking tickets.
And as far as I know, they don't even try to ticket cyclists that get caught by it.
But the police, they certainly do ticket cyclists they catch running red lights and stop signs.