Traffic cameras promote safer driving

The traffic cameras should stay! I drove a shuttle for a local car dealer for six years and drove on Interstate 380 in town many times. You could be driving down I-380 at the speed limit and cars and semis would go by like you were standing still. I called it the Cedar Rapids speedway, just like the Indianapolis Speedway. I also had three rear-enders at a red light. I know the other car would have gone through the light if I had not been there.

Rep. Walt Rogers said he spoke with several people as he worked on the legislation to ban the cameras. He said there was a single word in all the conversations: hate. People hate these things.

I thought if you hated something you had an experience with it. Did all of these people have an experience with traffic cameras? I don't know, but all the people I talked to were for the cameras and no one said they hated them.

Rep. Bruce Hunter said it intruded on civil liberties. Is he saying that civil liberties give you the right to speed and go through red lights? If cameras slow down traffic, I am for it. So are law-abiding drivers. The cameras make it safer!

Lynwood Dahms

Cedar Rapids