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<blockquote data-quote="HFS" data-source="post: 3203828" data-attributes="member: 8862"><p><strong>From Time magazine back in 2014 --</strong></p><p>"Earlier this year, the city [Chicago] began issuing tickets to motorists who drove through yellow lights that turned red fractions of a second shorter than the three-second city minimum. The change was slight, but the effect for the cash-starved city was real: nearly $8 million from an additional 77,000 tickets, according to the city’s inspector general."</p><p><a href="http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/" target="_blank">http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/</a></p><p></p><p><strong>From USA Today in 2015 --</strong></p><p>"In 2013, Florida quietly reduced the timing of its yellow lights and generated more than $100 million in extra revenue. Likewise, a study of New Jersey intersections found that the contractor had shortened virtually every yellow light below the minimum timing to generate tickets."</p><p><a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/15/speed-trap-red-light-column/24820783/" target="_blank">https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/15/speed-trap-red-light-column/24820783/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HFS, post: 3203828, member: 8862"] [B]From Time magazine back in 2014 --[/B] "Earlier this year, the city [Chicago] began issuing tickets to motorists who drove through yellow lights that turned red fractions of a second shorter than the three-second city minimum. The change was slight, but the effect for the cash-starved city was real: nearly $8 million from an additional 77,000 tickets, according to the city’s inspector general." [URL]http://time.com/3505994/red-light-camera-problems-tickets/[/URL] [B]From USA Today in 2015 --[/B] "In 2013, Florida quietly reduced the timing of its yellow lights and generated more than $100 million in extra revenue. Likewise, a study of New Jersey intersections found that the contractor had shortened virtually every yellow light below the minimum timing to generate tickets." [URL]https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2015/03/15/speed-trap-red-light-column/24820783/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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