RE: https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/09/this-bay-area-city-is-shedding-its-controversial-red-light-cameras/

To the Honorable Menlo Park Officials:
Thank you for ending the red light camera program to become the 81st California community to end or ban camera programs.
Your residents and visitors will be pleased to stop risking the high fines and surcharges for a program that produced no
demonstrable safety benefits.
Respectfully submitted,

James C. Walker
Life Member, National Motorists Association
www.motorists.org
2050 Camelot Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
734-668-7842
jcwconsult@aol.com

BIO: Age 74, licensed for 58 years, over 1.1 million miles of driving experience in 27 major countries, a volunteer student of
these issues for 50+ years. I work closely with the safety department of the Michigan State Police and testify frequently before
state legislative committees on proposed legislation that affects traffic safety and other motorists issues.

Red light and speed cameras are illegal to use in Michigan. When bills were introduced in 2013 to allow them, the combined
opposition and testimony in hearings from the Police Officers Association of Michigan, the ACLU, the Campaign for Liberty, Abate,
the Mackinac Center think tank, the judges association, the National Motorists Association, skeptical editorials in both major
Detroit newspapers, and others caused the bills to be withdrawn. Ticket cameras remain illegal to use in Michigan, and should be
illegal in every location.Ticket cameras are about profits, not safety. Safety comes from proper roadway engineering, not
enforcement.