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Freeway speed cameras are coming down 
A report from azfamily.com says that 76 cameras around the state will cease operation on Thursday.
The photo-enforcement cameras, which went up two years ago, were meant to catch speeders on Arizona's freeways and have been controversial from the beginning. While the cameras have done a good job at snapping speeders, drivers have been ignoring the tickets. According to the Department of Public Safety, the cameras led to more than 700,000 tickets in the first year of operation. Most of those people, however, never paid the fines. Some say that's because the tickets were mailed, making them easy to ignore. Any driver who ignored a photo-enforcement ticket was supposed to have been served, but process servers were inundated and simply couldn't get to everybody. If a person was not served, his or her ticket became invalid after three months. The speeding tickets should have generated about $90 million in the first year of the program -- a big "cash machine." About one-third of that was actually collected. Gov. Jan Brewer has always been critical of the program and decided earlier this year not to renew Arizona's contract with Redflex Traffic Systems, the company that runs the cameras. Opponents of the cameras were thrilled with that decision. They called the cameras a distraction that actually caused wrecks. They also said the cameras were a violation of people's constitutional rights. Supporters of the photo-enforcement program said the camera saved lives. A full audit on the program's effectiveness will not be complete until this fall. While the cameras on the freeways are coming down, many cities will continue to run speed and red-light cameras on their streets. Earlier this year, there was a grass-roots effort to get a measure on the ballot to ban all photo-enforcement cameras in Arizona, including those on local streets. Not enough signatures were collected to get that initiative on the November ballot. 
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