Complaint Review: City Of Duncanville Council & The Red Light Company They Hired - Duncanville / Richardson Texas

CONGRATS! How does that crow taste?

Congratulations to Deborah Hodge on becoming mayor!!! Isn't it wonderful?

My name is Steve Madison and I am mentioned in the report on the Duncanville Red Light Cameras. This is an old report and I found it only by doing an adverse data search for my name on the internet but I do want to respond.

There are many misleading myths in the report that I wish to correct:

1) The Duncanville Costco was built on land purchased from the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, not on property taken from Deborah and Lyle Hodge through eminent domain. The Hodges retain ownership to their full horse pasture to this very day.

2) Councilmember Hodge was elected to city council in district 4 based on this myth and after two years was rejected by the voters because of her caustic demeanor and near Moby d**k obsession with finding criminals at city hall and putting them in jail.

3) The author mischaracterizes my participation in the Anthem housing project which did receive a $209K economic development grant from the City of Duncsnville. I was the architect and project manager for the project and received no direct benefit from the grant which was used to partially pay for the $236K infrastructure required by and owned by the City of Duncanville. The houses were never built because of the sub-prime mortgage crisis that destroyed the housing market across the country.

4) I did support the installation of the red-light cameras for public safety reasons alone, and still do.

Thanks for allowing this response. 

haslet, the way in which you rebutt, is as old as methusala. Everyone knows how you try and take the victim, and make them the perpetrator, by targeting them, and accusing them of being a criminal, when it is the criminals who are getting away with using the taxpayers for city revenue, most of which will benefit them in some way. This is how you operate, haslet, and you have your place as an instigator, and as someone who makes the good guys run or break down or break down communication or give up, which runs against all logic, still I see a lot of your type. I bet you argue with your dog. You continue to drain us all, and that seem s****..

why are you so interested haslet? you dont even live here, hmm, at least we dont think you do, for now, and it has been my ten year experinece that people who are involved, or who have something to lose, seek out sites like this, in order to post, yet you adamently defend this city s practice , without even knowing the situation, and i might add that your research is minor at best. In fact, there seems to be no research on your part, and I would prefer you stop your dribble. Red lights are ok, in your opinion, and that is about all you have to offer. OK, we get it, but give us something. Ya got nothing.As for the first poster, please get in touch with me about the class action. thanks I will remember to gloss over any of your future comments, and hopefully you wont post anymore, cause the ip's on two of the posters are oddly the same, so hmm again

this issue has been on the local DFW news station recently. It was first reported as a problem with the red light cameras -- however the city came back with footage that shows that same complainer clearly running red lights as they made right turns on red WITHOUT STOPPING! Right turns on red -LAW REQUIRES that you come to a FULL STOP before proceeding through the intersection. FROM THE NBCDFW WEBSITE: Steve Cornett, a North Texas minister, and his wife, Cheryl, said they were issued nine bogus tickets by the city's red-light cameras this year. If this is the OP - those tickets are valid- quit complaining and follow the law. link to news story with footage http://www.nbcdfw.com/traffic_autos/transit/Duncanville-The-Red-Light-Proof-is-in-the-Picture.html

stupid, senseless, redundant, psycho babble site, where all they do is argue and name call and are not about getting anything resolved

Comment by Steve Madison, on Best Southwest Citizen website, at http://bswcitizen.com/?p=319 Madison described the citizens who agree with a council member as lunatic fringe. I think for myself, and am extremely offended by his comment. Ford, the council person that Madison was referring to was against giving grants to a private business, Ben Franklin, which would mainly increase profits for the owner. I agree with him on that. Ford's idea of a jury trial is A GOOD IDEA. Ford is a grandstander, probably to advance his agenda, but so are the other council. Other council members are only interested in slamming others, approving pay raises for cohorts, throwing money away, giving themselves getaways, and trying to give themselves cell phones. You need Ford, to counter mudslinging, psycho babble, delays, ineptness, and playing of sides. My family has had four red light tickets. A class action suit should be instituted by the citizens against the city/company running the cameras. A class action might work cause it hits them in the pocketbooks. When I contacted Ford regarding the red lights flashing on me twice, he shot down my idea of a class action, and countered others, so if he is not using the red lights to gain spotlight, prove it, by sending an email to a representative, and finding a lobbyist, cause this council won't let him change it, and his votes have been inconsequential thus far. Council should better the red light situation, without Ford's input, or they could be responsible for Ford becoming mayor. Look to find this post on ripoffreport.net

I want these to stop. They dont work for the real red light runners

I have never had a ticket. yet I have seen the Duncanville police speed through red lights with no sirens or lights, and there was a child killed in Dallas over the police's uncontested practice, yet duncanville, who's police force advocated for alcohol sales, now that is safe, is ticketing people who go over the white line, not red light runners, and they are ticketing all of us in the town. There were over 44, 000 tickets last year, and there are only 30,000 people, and they made 3 million dollars and this council has a history of trying to make money off the citizens. I got a ticket for going over the white line, and going right on red. I am the most conciencious driver, and if I were not, I would not be posting. I ALWAYS stop on red light on red. I always look to my left, and sit for a while, because you have to in order to see who is coming. I always stop, for a while, not just a second, and I never coast through a right on red. We are getting ticketed for going over the white line. Thanks for your support. I really appreciate it. The other night, I came to a stop, and a bright light flashed in my face. I didn't know what it was. I never even went right on red, I just stopped, apparently, too close to the white line. I was not even close to the white line. I think about who might be driving the car ahead around me, and if it might be a child, or someone is in the car that is my child's age. I wait for every car to pass, if they are remotely close. I dont know how much safer I could be, other than sitting still. LOL, so suffice it to say, I'm a really good driver. My objective is safety over getting there faster. I even watch when drivers speed past me, only to have me catch them at the light. I have never seen a tailgator ticketed. My family members are also safe drivers. We are all former teachers and educators. That is why I know that these videos are for revenue. BTW, this best southwest citizen site is fill of graphic material, so be forewarned. I think a former newspaper employee runs it, and some ex police employees are on the site, harassing posters who disagree with them, but what can you expect from people with that mentality, who bully others, marry people their children's age, and are afraid to come out. They have nothing better to do? I know I do. Also, contact me, privately, here and I will give you my phone number, if SERIOUSLY interested in the class action suit.

Comment by Steve Madison, on Best Southwest Citizen website, at http://bswcitizen.com/?p=319 <<<<

I suggest you stop running red lights and putting others in danger!! I had to find a new route to work because of red light runners Get off the cell phone and start respecting the rules of the road Grow up! Stacey

in case you have forgotten - running red lights is illegal and CAUSES ACCIDENTS! If your family has 4 of them - that tells me YOUR FAMILY is at fault. Yes there are occassional errors, but 4 of them tell me that is NOT ERROR on the camera's part but bad driving on your families part. I have one intersection that I have to go through where EVERYONE RAN THE LIGHT, as many as 3 or 4 cars would run the light at one time. The city even put a time delay in the lights so that it would not turn green immediately for cross traffic They put in the Red Light Camera and the light running stopped and so did the NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS! I know of several people who have been seriously injured at that light because some jerk DID NOT STOP! RED LIGHT CAMERAS ARE NEEDED BECAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE BREAKING THE LAW AND THE POLICE CANNOT BE MONITORING THEM ALL DAY

This has happened to me in Hutto Texas. They have installed red Light cameras at the intersection. Plus shortening the delay on the Yellow lights to red to issue tickets to drivers who run them. I feel that this system needs to be pulled out of all cities. I am a vocal critic against installing red light cameras. I can promise one thing. Expect rear end collisions to occur. I can tell you this, this is a violation against all constituents of the state of Texas. This has never reduced the red light runners. It has increased injuries in the area. All citizens need to get together lets get our votes to count and yank out the cameras. The police dept has wayyy too much power. we need to return our country back to the people to the founding fathers status.