Governor Jan Brewer’s appointee for DPS director, Robert Halliday, does not like the cameras. No word on what he thinks of the evidence that they reduce crashes and injuries. (see e.g. DPS press release, and ADOT study of loop 101 )
Also no word yet from the many legislators who have vowed to increase DPS patrols on highways, claiming that will enhance safety. Arizona faces record budget shortfalls, and it isn’t clear where money for increasing patrols would come from. The budge shortfall just got a little bigger, now that the Redflex contract has be canceled (well, not renewed) — because as the critics like to point out; the program made money for the state.
Unaffected are city-run programs, which are used for both speed and red-light running enforcement on surface streets (not on limited-access highways).
Arizona to eliminate speed-enforcement cameras on freeways, The Arizona Republic, 5/06/2010
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