Cops can't be everywhere at all times, so cameras are good (and photos are solid evidence). Oh, if only the cameras were sensitive enough to show whether drivers were holding a phone (talking or texting)! Then double or triple the fines, or suspend licenses because it's more distracting and dangerous than drunk driving.

Can we please set up cameras on roadsides to catch the 50% of drivers who just have to talk or text while behind the wheel? It's an accident waiting to happen... It's an epidemic. The fines would probably pay a town's entire annual budget, and make our roads much safer.

It's a great idea....I think though the camera's ought be better posted with signage say on the light post so out of the area folks know there are camera's at the intersection. I have no problem because....I don't go through red lights. I have almost been killed by someone who did though. So a camera serves a good purpose.

If cops did their job you wouldn't need cameras. I agree with Martin 100% about the cell phones. Apparently the police are allowed to use them even though they cause accidents themselves. Toms River could be very wealthy if they did their jobs about people going right through stop signs, tailgating, texting, talking on cell phones, going right through red lights, speeding,etc.

They cause more accidents... look at the data, I did not make it up. Granted these accidents are less severe than head-ons or T- Bones, but the amount of rear-ending will cause all our insurances to rise.
Not to mention Brick is cheating by shortening the yellow signal to 5 seconds, instead of the state recommended 7 seconds. $$$

The poll should be considered invalid as it was funded by the red light camera company. The question was as about favoring a red light camera ticket with no points verses a police officer ticket issued with points so of course the majority would respond saying they prefer the red light camera

I think the idea of them are great but the really bright flash in the dark that goes off for no reason is a distraction. The flash goes off all of the time when no one is doing anything wrong. it doesnt make any sense.

The only one who benefits is the company that owns the cameras.
I live in Florida.We have red light cameras .Last week every car in a police escorted funeral procession was ticketed.The camera even showed a cop directing cars through red light.
The courts are jammed up .Not only is it costly but it's a terrible inconvienence.
Almost everyone who fights the ticket wins.

The easiest way to reduce severe accidents at intersections that have a red light running problem is to adjust the timing of the signals. Adding a longer yellow is the first step, then having a good 2-3 seconds of all-way red allow for drivers stuck in the intersection, or even those running the light. Those two steps alone can reduce bad collisions at intersections... but there is no money in that for the towns.

I really can't believe what I'm reading. This is America. The cameras may be benficial in changing driving behavior and ultimatly making things safer, but at what cost? When did it become OK to give up our liberty and privacy in exchange for safety? We already think its OK for the TSA to check Grandma's adult diaper when boarding a plane in the name of safety. Now we are saying that its OK for them to take our picture at a traffic light and send us a fine in the mail without human intervention in the name of safety. What is next? Allowing the town to use the satellite images on Google to catch people improving their backyard without a permit? It can considered a safety violation if you add a deck onto your house without an inspection. Other towns around the country are already doing this. Where does it end?

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

1984. Big Brother is Watching!

Does anyone not realize these cameras were only installed to produce revenue for the city? Sure they have a small benefit to safety, but as others said, they also cause people to jam on their brakes, an bright flashes throughout the night, even when no one has violated the light. This was just a money making scheme, shrouded by the name of safety. You don't need a camera to tell you running a yellow or red light is dumb and dangerous.

Welcome to the New World Order Police state.

Continue to allow them to take away our libertys in the name of protection. Soon we will have no freedom at all. The average police officer in brick makes 100,000 dollars a year. Let them do there job. These cameras are just money genetators for an already blotted township looking for a way to take more of our money

Our society is shot and too many just dont realize it.. Im not even 40 years old yet & this is NOT the country i grew up in. we have no rights in the USA.
My only humor in this camera topic is:
before we all converted over to EZ Pass , we never thought they'd let all those over paid, pension etc etc toll collectors. = theyre almost extinct.
The cameras will put the cops out of work too.... these cameras are everywhere, Rt 95 through DC and Baltimore they are cash cows.. dump the cops,no more over paid civil servants, no more pensions, we could save so much without them. Hence,, our taxes should go down right????? more social programs will just come from it.. its a lose - lose people..

really? how long is unemployment now - 2 years..
I walk into the 7-11 down town periodically - im a rarity using cash. apparently, the state issues credit/charge cards for people who are in perfectly good health - the language is insane, when their not allowed to buy an $8.00 pack of cigs. (which mind you,,, more then 50% of that goes back to NJ in tax)
my point is: this state & country is draining the working household. They will never reduce our taxes, and when the market drops again at the end of the 3rd Qtr - more programs will be rolled out.

Really? How much are the social security checks going down for grandma and grandpa? How far have the funds to charity (medical $$ through churches) care for the "working poor" been cut back? How far are they going to cut welfare, foodstamps and medicaid? It's good for your kind that they cut it, but there are people out there like grandma and grandpa and the disabled who need these benefits. If you want to get into illegal aliens, that's a different thread altogether.

Before posting your thoughts, has anyone thought about talking to the Traffic Safety Division of the PD snd getting some info? A lot if the info your all have posted about the process is incorrect.

Hi mare,
I'm not trying argue with you..
The fact is = more $$ is being generated through this "light program" and where's the benefit for the work g class?? Safety? I dont think that's the idea behind this.
As for welfare and SS. I'm 39 working 2 jobs soon a 3rd to keep a desired lifestyle. There are far more seniors in local restaurants then younger families. This area caters to the seniors -this town has fallen apart since the seniors poured in.
Social security will not be there for me -
Welfare people,there's jobs out there- they choose to sit back and take the socialist train and not work.
American values left us after WW2.

Patch, please do so and report back: Fewer red-light-running collisions? Are other local towns considering the red-light cams as a result of this? How much revenue to Brick? Is that a drop in the bucket in town's budget? Thanks, and please stop texting, dialing and phoning while driving (you know who you are).

The potential safety concept is good but in some towns ( i.e. Newark) it has been proven the camera's have given "bad tickets" to cars that did not go thru the red lite. There was a huge expose on News 12 and how some towns up north had to do away with dozens of summonses that were issued. The technology is not perfect. There's also some serious "big brother" issues here, looking over our shoulder so to speak.

If you are not in the wrong, you should not care who is looking.

In reading all of your comments, I can tell you that I am fine with the cameras....IF Crime decreases in Brick. So far I have gotten a few tickets for going through the light and making a turn on red without coming to a stop. I am an idiot for doing those things and I have paid my fine. I would really like crime in Brick to be where it was a few years ago and with our very large police force not working traffic duty I expect reductions in drugs, robberies, petty larceny etc
Texting and driving scares the hell out of me, I ride a motorcycle and I get cut off all the time by a motorist looking into their laps, I would assume reading an email or texting. Sure, if the cameras could detect that, I think that would be good too...So now what about smoking in a car...ever get hit in the neck with a discarded cigarette?

You know what....I have to agree with some of the above.....clicking a picture only gives you a car. Not a licensed driver/name etc. How does that work? your car your ticket? No wayyyyyy

It's a win, when you fight it.
Ask the prosecutor to identify the driver of the vehicle.
Case dropped.. Been down that road already.

I am amazed at how many people have taken the "if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't worry about who's looking" stance. People really have no idea what principles were sacred to the founders of this nation.
Just today, I went through the light at Chambers Bridge and Rt 70 - making a left from 70 East to Chambers Bridge North. The light turned yellow, and then red, before I could make it through the intersection because the light at the Shop-Rite left turn was red and the cars were backed up to the intersection. I honestly had no choice in the matter. So I expect I will be getting one of these tickets in the mail. And I will fight it and see what happens.
These things exist to extort money from the people who live and shop in this town, plain and simply. They figure that for every person who fights one of these tickets, 20 more will just pay it. And that's probably exactly what happens. Most people are afraid of the system - the police, the courts, etc.
Unfortunately, I'm sure those camera's are just the first of many more. And taxes will still rise, garbage will be privatized sooner or later, and the Mayor just might have the police shake us down in the street before long to finally win his hockey rink.
As long as people keep saying "it doesn't affect me so it's ok", things will continue to get worse until it affects EVERYONE.

DH: That Shop Rite left turn is a disaster. The state needs to add a left turn lane on Route 70 East into the center and coordinate a left turn signal when C. Bridge is green... OR close that left turn lane and force everyone to use the jughandle by the post office to enter the plaza that way.

Also, as a history professor, I often think our founding fathers would cry at stuff like this. Would anyone who has the "if you are behaving, who cares?" attitude be happy if the state installed cameras on poles outside their house to monitor any suspicious activity?

Great idea for the tourist season, but give the locals a break during the winter, the town will make plenty off the tourists to allow for the locals to not have the enforcement during the off season. I also beleive that having the cameras on rt 37 is benfical as well .

It does not matter what anyone thinks-Acrapolis is going to do what he wants with the cameras and the money. I cant wait to hear the yelling when huge new tax increases show up in the mail.

It's the best fund raiser they have for towns that want to make quick money on the taxpayers.

This could be the end of these lights......
As reported in the Star- Ledger
:http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/nj_slams_the_breaks_on_red-lig.html

Another interesting article about red light cameras. Recent reports are starting to show they DO NOT lead to driver & pedestrian safety...it truly is a money grab at our expense. I'm just so tired of some entrepreneur coming up with another clever way to stick their hands in my pocket. At some point in time, this 'money well' is going to go dry...and it's fast coming!

http://www.motorists.org/red-light-cameras/increase-accidents