Report recommends against red light cameras

With the contract for the city's much-criticized red-light cameras coming up for renewal this month, a stinging report that recommends scrapping them could hurt LAPD efforts to continue the program. C.J. Lin in the Daily News.

The report's main conclusion is that if the costly system were shut down, all traffic engineers would have to do to improve traffic safety is extend the length of yellow signal lights at intersections.

"There is a very good chance someone is going to be forced to run the red light because the yellow timing is too short," said Jay Beeber, a Sherman Oaks resident who wrote the report, "Safer Streets in Los Angeles."