The three red light cameras in Cathedral City will soon be no more.
The city council voted 4 to 1 this week to get rid of the cameras, which cost the city $10,500 to operate, due to the amount of time police had to put in to reviewing footage, according to KESQ.
Officials sat that it has been taking two officers 84 hours per month to review the red light camera footage and they would prefer that the time of those two officers was spent patrolling.
The Chicago Tribune studied red light cameras in 2014 and found that while right angle crashes at red light camera intersections decreased by 15%, those same intersections saw an increase in rear-end collisions that caused injuries of 22%
For now, the cameras will still operate at the intersections of Vista Chino and Date Palm, Date Palm and Ramon Road, and Ramon Road and Landau Boulevard.
