I know the village trustees were probably given good cause to make streets safer AND increase revenues by placing these cameras. My guess is that people fight these tickets routinely (causing increased direct and indirect administrative costs of enforcement) and that rear end collisions are up significantly at these intersections.

I narrowly escaped one such collision this morning, which prompted this letter.

The thought of "big brother" watching is fine with me. However, I would really like to know if more accidents are caused by the indecision produced by these cameras.

Maybe the village trustees would find that their revenue-producing cameras actually make things less safe. I wonder if that would make a difference.

David Kolssak

Wheeling