Loma Linda Documents

Some of Loma Linda's tickets can possibly be ignored.  If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is what I call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page and Set # 1, below.

Loma Linda Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

Loma Linda Docs Set # 2
"Late Time" Graphs

  The City provided bar graphs (or "bar charts") of Late Times, etcetera, for all  of its cameras.
These graphs track violations recorded, not tickets issued.
Where there is a large number of long Late Time violations in a curb lane, it is believed to indicate heavy ticketing on right turns.
(The curb lane will be the lane with the highest lane number.)



The picture above is an example from another city.

ANBA-01, March 2006
ANBA-01, Oct. 2006
ANBA-01, Nov. 2006
ANBA-01, Dec. 2006
ANBA-01, Oct. 2009
ANBA-01, March 2010

BAAN-01, March 2006
BAAN-01, Oct. 2006
BAAN-01, Nov. 2006
BAAN-01, Dec. 2006
BAAN-01, Oct. 2009
BAAN-01, March 2010

BAMO-01, March 2006
BAMO-01, Oct. 2006
BAMO-01, Nov. 2006
BAMO-01, Dec. 2006
BAMO-01, Oct. 2009
BAMO-01, March 2010

MOBA-01, March 2006
MOBA-01, Oct. 2006
MOBA-01, Nov. 2006
MOBA-01, Dec. 2006
MOBA-01, Oct. 2009
MOBA-01, March 2010

REAN-01, March 2006
REAN-01, Oct. 2006
REAN-01, Nov. 2006*
REAN-01, Dec. 2006
REAN-01, Oct. 2009
REAN-01, March 2010

REAN-03, March 2006
REAN-03, Oct. 2006
REAN-03, Nov. 2006*
REAN-03, Dec. 2006
REAN-03, Oct. 2009
REAN-03, March 2010

REMO-01, March 2006*
REMO-01, Oct. 2006
REMO-01, Nov. 2006*
REMO-01, Dec. 2006
REMO-01, Oct. 2009
REMO-01, March 2010

*The City was unable to provide these bar graphs.

Bar graphs are available for other cities, too - see the list in the expanded version of Defect # 9.

Loma Linda Docs Set # 3
Yellows Too Short: 1890 to 4000 Unjustified Tickets

New 9-12-10, updated 12-6-10

On Sept. 9, 2010 the Inland Empire Weeky published an article about too-short yellows in Loma Linda, quoting highwayrobbery.net.

The City officials quoted in the article said that Loma Linda's yellows have always been long enough.

In a later article (Oct. 13) in the San Bernardino Sun, reporter Ryan Hagen wrote:

  Here is how highwayrobbery.net discovered, contrary to the officials' claims, that the yellows were too short during the first ten months of the camera program's operation.

Highwayrobbery.net's estimate of the number of unjustified tickets is 1890 to 4000.  See details below the table.

Table:  Loma Linda Yellow Times 

The table above was compiled by highwayrobbery.net, from signal timing charts obtained from the City, under a public records act request.

BARTON / ANDERSON:

Loops are: Ebd, with none in the right turn lane, and Sbd.
The Ebd cam is believed to be BAAN, and the Sbd cam ANBA, but it could be vice-versa.
The "thru" yellow for Ebd Barton was 4.0 until Nov. 2006 when it was raised to 4.3. Thus, it was too short during the first 10+ months of operation.
The yellow for Sbd Anderson is believed to have been at or above the legal minimum all along.
 The bar charts above (see Loma Linda Docs Set # 2) were used to estimate the number of tickets issued due to the too short Ebd yellow. For purposes of this estimate, it was assumed that the Ebd cam is BAAN. The too-short yellow would have affected only the thru movements, which Redflex designated as lanes 2 and 3. (Lane 1 left turns were excluded as the legal minimum for turns is 3.0. But it should be noted that there is an argument that if ANY yellow at a cam is too short, then ALL tickets issued by that cam are no good - including the tickets for turning movements.) The Mar. 2006 bar charts show that in lanes 2 and 3 there were 86 violations of 0.3 or less, which if approved for issuance at the overall rate for that cam for the month, would have resulted in 68 unjustified tickets, or 680 in ten months.

BARTON / MT. VIEW:

Loops are: Ebd, with none in the right turn lane, and Sbd, maybe not including the far right turn lane. (The bar charts for MOBA show high numbers of right turn tickets, while a site inspection revealed that a car making a right turn there from the unmarked lane right next to the curb would not pass over loops. Because a lot of right turns were detected by the camera, many cars must have been making a right turn while straddling the rightmost thru lane - which has loops).
The Ebd cam is BAMO.
The yellow for Ebd Barton was 4.0 until Nov. 2006 when it was raised to 4.3. Thus, it was too short during the first 10+ months of operation.
The yellow for Sbd Mt. View is believed to have been at or above the legal minimum all along.
The too-short Ebd yellow would have affected only the thru movements, which Redflex designated as lanes 3 and 4 (the dual left turns are lanes 1 and 2). The Mar. 2006 bar charts show that in lanes 3 and 4 there were 63 violations of 0.3 or less, which if approved for issuance at the overall rate for that cam for the month, would have resulted in 44 unjustified tickets, or 440 in ten months.

REDLANDS / ANDERSON:

Loops are: Ebd and Wbd. No loops were visible under the Wbd far right turn lane.
The Wbd cam is REAN-01 and the EBd cam is REAN-03.
The yellow for Ebd and Wbd Redlands was 4.0 until Nov. 2006 when it was raised to 4.3. Thus, it was too short during the first 10+ months of operation.
The too-short yellow would have affected only the thru movements, which Redflex designated as lanes 2 and 3. The Mar. 2006 bar charts show that in lanes 2 and 3 for Wbd Redlands (REAN-01) there were 30 violations of 0.3 or less, which if approved for issuance at the overall rate for that intersection for the month, would have resulted in 15 unjustified tickets, or 150 in ten months.
 The Mar. 2006 bar charts show that in lanes 2 and 3 for Ebd Redlands (REAN-03) there were 33 violations of 0.3 or less, which if approved for issuance at the overall rate for that cam for the month, would have resulted in 19 unjustified tickets, or 190 in ten months.

REDLANDS / MT. VIEW:

Loops are: Ebd, with none in the right turn lane.
The Ebd cam is REMO.
The signal timing chart covering the period prior to Nov. 2006 has not yet been received (it was requested on June 10, again on June 28, again on Aug. 17, and again on Dec. 6), so we do not know for sure that the Ebd yellow was too short during the first 10+ months of operation. But it is likely.
If it was too short, it would have affected only the thru movements, which Redflex designated as lanes 2 and 3. The Oct06 bar charts (received  10-5-10) show that in lanes 2 and 3 there were 67 violations of 0.3 or less, which if approved for issuance at the overall rate for that cam for the month, would have resulted in 43 unjustified tickets, or 430 in ten months.

TOTAL (EST.) UNJUSTIFIED TICKETS AT THE FIVE EAST - WEST CAMERAS IN TEN MONTHS:

Per the estimating method detailed above (posted here on 9-12-10, and updated on 10-8-10 after the Oct. 2006 REMO bar charts were received), 1890 tickets were unjustified.

But it could be much higher. The Aug. - Dec. 2006 ticket counts received on 10-5-10 show that after the 11-20-06 correction of yellow times, ticketing decreased by 400 per month, an (est.) 4000 unjustified tickets in ten months. 

Loma Linda Docs Set # 4
The Contract, Etc.

2005 Contract

The contract was allowed to expire, and the program was closed on Dec. 1, 2010.

This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the ones listed above.

Loma Linda Docs Set # 5
Longer Yellows: Effect on Ticket Volume

This spreadsheet shows how Loma Linda's longer yellows affected ticket volume.

SaferStreetsLA Report on Effect of Longer Yellows in Loma Linda

Loma Linda Docs Set # 6
More Coming

There may be some more Loma Linda information posted in the next few weeks.  Mark your calendar to remind you to come back here and look!

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