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Tom McCarey
Berwyn, Pa.
Pennsylvania is an unusual state in the way legislation is passed.
The politicians can introduce a bill, it can be heard in a day or two and it can pass out of committee immediately to be put up for a vote. It's not a very transparent process.
It's a real inside club where the lobbyists, especially the lobbyists for the ticket camera companies, get in there, they can put the fix in and there's no chance for the people to have any say in this.
The process makes it impossible for the public to engage on proposed bills. Pennsylvania is one of the worst states with regards as to how the legislature is run, how transparent the process is, and what chance there is for the public to engage on camera traffic enforcement issues.
That's why we have red light cameras, speed cameras, work zone cameras and school bus stop-arm cameras; collectively an enforcement-for-profit racket. The legislature needs to reform their process for passing legislation. A good start would be to ban all camera traffic enforcement in Pennsylvania.