{"id":2358,"date":"2008-03-17T16:51:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=2358"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:52:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:52:36","slug":"dallas-considers-shutting-off-red-light-cams-since-theyre-working-too-well-and-harming-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/dallas-considers-shutting-off-red-light-cams-since-theyre-working-too-well-and-harming-revenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas considers shutting off red light cams, since they&#8217;re working too well and harming revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/03\/15\/dallas-is-considers-shutting-off-red-light-cams-since-theyre-w\/#comments\" >Dallas considers shutting off red light cams, since they&#8217;re working too well and harming revenue<\/a>: &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/category\/digitalcameras\/\"  rel=\"tag\">Digital Cameras<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/category\/transportation\/\"  rel=\"tag\">Transportation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/sharedcontent\/dws\/news\/localnews\/stories\/DN-redlights_15met.ART.North.Edition1.468120d.html\" ><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"16\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2007\/06\/red_light3.jpg\" \/><\/a>There&#8217;s just one, fairly ironic, flaw to the otherwise totally lovable red light cameras that adorn Dallas: they work too well. Turns out the cams have curtailed red light infractions by 50 percent, which in turn has put a budget crunch on City Hall. The city is now considering stopping its planned rollout of more cameras, or shutting down the cameras on a rotating basis &#8212; upkeep when off is next to nothing, but the city pays $3,799 per month per online camera to its service provider. That sounds like quite a spendy broadband bill, but we&#8217;re not the experts here. Just remember kids, your government wants what&#8217;s best for you, and what&#8217;s best for you is a well-funded government, alright?<\/p>\n<p> [Via <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.fark.com\/cgi\/fark\/comments.pl?IDLink=3470340\" >Fark<\/a> href=&#8221;http:\/\/www.engadget.com&#8221;>Engadget<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Currently playing in iTunes: <i>Tag Der Briefmarke<\/i> by H.N.A.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas considers shutting off red light cams, since they&#8217;re working too well and harming revenue: &#8220; Filed under: Digital Cameras, Transportation There&#8217;s just one, fairly ironic, flaw to the otherwise totally lovable red light cameras that adorn Dallas: they work too well. Turns out the cams have curtailed red light infractions by 50 percent, which &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2008\/03\/dallas-considers-shutting-off-red-light-cams-since-theyre-working-too-well-and-harming-revenue\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dallas considers shutting off red light cams, since they&#8217;re working too well and harming revenue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-C2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}