An increase in drivers running red lights and causing accidents has not been met with a corresponding increase in fines.
In a five year period, red light crashes increased from 367 to 477, but according to Stuff fines issued by police have not kept pace.
In Auckland there were expensive red light cameras added to six intersections in July last year, but so far there have been no fines issued according to an OIA obtained by Stuff.
Auckland Transport said the cameras were being "calibrated" since January, and it plans to begin enforcement within the next fortnight.
In Auckland between 2012 and 2016, intersection crashes due to red light running resulted in four deaths and 75 serious injuries.
One notorious Auckland intersection is putting school children in life-threatening danger every day.
Drivers are frequently running red lights at the Nelson and Union Street intersection while pedestrians - including Freemans Bay School students - are crossing.
When The Project set up a camera to watch the intersection last week, within five minutes they busted a car breaking a red light and narrowly avoiding a mother and her two children.
Auckland Transport has a red light camera set up at the intersection, but it doesn't seem to be preventing danger.
It said in a statement: "There is a 4-second delay between the red arrow appearing on the traffic lights and the green pedestrian 'cross now' signal starting. The issue of red light running ultimately comes down to poor driver behaviour."
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