INSIDE INGLEWOOD-According to a July 30 radio interview on an early morning KJLH radio show, Inglewood’s red light cameras were deactivated in January of this year. The revelation came after a lengthy discussion about the Forum, which re-opened in January.
At about seven and a half minutes into the show, Inglewood’s mayor, James T. Butts, was asked by the a caller, “When are you going to get rid of the red light cameras in the City of Inglewood?”
Butts answered, “We got rid of them in January of this year. They have been out of operation for about six months now.”
According to Butts, the reason the cameras were made inert was because of the dangers they posed to motorists. “When we looked at our charts of red-light collisions, we saw that they were down demonstrably,” Butts declared. “We had more of a problem with rear-end collisions from people braking prematurely for the red light cameras.”
Nevertheless, the cameras remain physically standing. No public discussion was ever held regarding making the cameras inactive, nor has any announcement been made save for the impromptu comments on an early a.m. radio show.
Requests to the mayor if the cameras were made inert the same month that the Forum opened as well as access to the “collision charts” were not answered.
(Randall Fleming is a veteran journalist and magazine publisher. He has worked at and for the New York Post, the Brooklyn Spectator and the Los Feliz Ledger. He is currently editor-in-chief at the Morningside Park Chronicle, a weekly newspaper based in Inglewood, CA and on-line at www.MorningsideParkChronicle.com. Mr. Fleming’s views are his own and do not reflect the views of CityWatch.) Photo credit: Randall Fleming
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CityWatch
Vol 12 Issue 74
Pub: Sep 12, 2014
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