Red Light Cameras in Brick are Officially a Thing of the Past

We will no longer see the strobe flashes at Brick's busiest intersections and gone are the days of screeching to a hault when the light turns yellow, at least for the sake of getting fined. The red light cameras in Brick have been deactivated, but not before raking in a ton of dough for the township.

The three cameras were at Route 70 and Chambers Bridge Road, Route 70 and Brick Boulevard and Brick Boulevard and Chambers Bridge Road.

We were all promised that the use of these cameras would reduce traffic accidents at these intersections. As it turns out, it did the opposite.

Accidents doubled at the Route 70 intersections of Brick Boulevard and Chambers Bridge Road after the cameras were installed.

Plus, in 2013 alone, Brick Township raked in $830,000 in red light camera fines alone. Since the the cameras were installed, 2 million dollars worth of fines were issued.

Apparently, many of us weren't alone when we said the red light camera system was a cheap and unfair money maker for the town.

State Assemblyman Declan O'Scanlon celebrated the end of a very bad era by standing under a Brick red light camera on Monday holding a sign that said "Good Riddance!"

Brick Mayor John Ducey realized the cameras were not protecting people. He absolutely did the right thing by pulling the plug on the program and being the first in the state to take a stand.

Assemblyman O'Scanlon and Mayor Ducey, thank you for doing the right thing for Brick!