The company Jacksonville is negotiating with to install at least 25 red light cameras at intersections around the city has  been kicked out of several U.S. cities because revenues didn’t equal  projections.

Jacksonville is negotiating with Redflex Traffic Systems, an Arizona-based  subsidiary of Australian Redflex Holdings. The company’s contract with  Albuquerque, N.M., was shot down late last year by voters and the City Council,  and two West Coast cities canceled their deals.

Albuquerque Councilman Dan Lewis said he was neutral about the cameras at  first but eventually came out against them when he learned more.

The city asked the University of New Mexico in December 2009 to study the  effects of the cameras on crashes. It found the number of crashes at  intersections with cameras increased 3.5 percent, mostly due to a jump in  rear-end collisions.

Also, Lewis said, the city was running in red ink.

“The program began to lose about $100,000 a month,” he said. Although the  company renegotiated, the City Council followed the non-binding vote of the  people to end the contract.