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Mark Lawrence
<br />Assistant to the City Manager
<br />City of Santa Ana
<br />From: icwconsult@aol.com [mailto:icwconsult@aol.com]
<br />Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 2:03 PM
<br />To: Council
<br />Subject: (No subject)
<br />Dear Santa Ana Officials,
<br />We would ask that the Santa Ana City Council confirm the Staff Report to not renew its contract with Redflex for several
<br />reasons.
<br />1) Red light cameras do serious economic damage to any community that uses them. Per the Federal Reserve, the "velocity of
<br />money" is currently about 6.5 which means $1 spent in a community tends to circulate about 6.5 times in a year to create about
<br />$6.50 in total turnover. Each $1 sent to the state, county or Redflex will therefore damage your community by reducing the
<br />economic turnover in your community by about $6.50 and transferring it to increase the economic health and turnover of the
<br />state, the county, and Redflex in Arizona and Australia.
<br />Each ticket sends $234.60 to the state and $101.69 to the county for a loss of $336.29 x 6.5 = over $2,000 of lower economic
<br />turnover in your community for each ticket, to benefit the state and county budgets.
<br />The current fees for Redflex, data communications and legal expenses total over $87,000 per month x 6.5 = over $500,000 in lost
<br />economic turnover in your area every month, to benefit the economic health of Arizona and Australia and the technical fee areas.
<br />This is a massive amount of economic damage to the Santa Ana area that can be prevented by not renewing the contract with any
<br />vendor.
<br />2) Simply adding 0.5 to 1.0 seconds to the yellow intervals on the lights will almost certainly reduce the straight through
<br />violation rates at your camera intersections by more than the cameras have achieved. This no -cost adjustment of the timers will
<br />improve both safety and the economic health of Santa Ana. See our website for many examples of how this has worked in other
<br />California communities.
<br />3) Be aware that ticketing slow rolling right on red turns or stopping just over a line tickets almost exclusively safe drivers that
<br />presented no crash risks to anyone. Federal research by NHTSA shows that only 0.4% of crashes at signalized intersections and
<br />only 0.06% of all crashes with an injury or fatality involve a right on red turn. Almost all right on red cameras tickets are about
<br />money, not safety.
<br />http: //w nhtsa aov/ About +NHTSA /traffic +Techs /c=enV'Me +Safety+ Impact +of +Right +Turn +on +Red• +Report+to+Conuess
<br />4) At least 61 California communities have ended red light camera programs or banned them before any could operate.
<br />Anaheim, Bell Gardens, Belmont, Berkeley, Burlingame, City of Orange, Compton, Corona, Costa Mesa, Cupertino, East LA, El
<br />Cajon, El Monte, Emeryville, Escondido, Fairfield, Fresno, Fullerton, Gardena, Glendale, Grand Terrace, Hayward, Indian
<br />Wells, Inglewood, Irvine, LA County, Laguna Niguel, Lancaster, Loma Linda, Long Beach, City of Los Angeles, Maywood,
<br />Montclair, Moreno Valley, Murrieta, Newport Beach, Paramount, Pasadena, Poway, Rancho Cucamonga, Redlands, Redwood
<br />City, Rocklin, Roseville, Rowland Heights, San Bernardino, San Carlos, San Diego, San Juan Capistrano, San Rafael, Santa Fe
<br />Springs, Santa Maria, Santa Rosa, South Gate, South Whittier, Union City, Upland, Westminster, Whittier, Yuba City, Yucaipa.
<br />Due to growing public opposition, data in many communities showing no safety benefits or higher crash rates at camera
<br />intersections, and the realization of the economic damage cameras do, only 49 California communities still use cameras. Santa
<br />Ana should shift to the group that has ended the cameras to benefit your citizens, visitors, and your community's economy.
<br />5) Similarly, about 500 communities nationwide now have red light contracts, down from about 700. Please join the reducing
<br />group.
<br />6) There have been enough scandals with Redflex to indicate that no honorable US community should deal with them for
<br />anything.
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