From the monthly archives:

December 2008

Traffic police — friend or foe?

by Graham on December 31, 2008

Tell me I’m not the only person who thinks that all the traffic police hired to “aid” the flow of traffic around the Galleria during Christmas aren’t making the problem worse! Yesterday, it took me 15 minutes to go travel between Sage and Post Oak on West Alabama because the several officers along the [...]

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Do red light cameras increase or decrease accidents?

by Graham on December 30, 2008

As someone who has been rear-ended at a camera-monitored red light, I’m highly suspicious of the value created by red light cameras. A new study by Rice University argues that although accidents have increased at camera-monitored intersections, that increase is almost entirely attributable to increases in the unmonitored directions. The mayor supports this argument by [...]

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