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Ars is reporting that the yellow/amber phase of ticket camera lights may be significantly below state laws in order to generate more revenue for local city governments. There has been one city in Tennessee that has had to refund all it’s fines for a particular intersection that was nearly a second shorter than the 3.9 second minimum set by the state government. There are also reports that the traffic engineers in Dallas have done the same. Shame on them.

I recently got a ticket in the mail for a supposed run. It was interesting that they also had a video of it. I was actually making a right turn on red and the camera thought I ran the light. The wording on the “citation” said that other than a $75 fine, it wouldn’t go on my record or be reported to the insurance company. It’s a 100% revenue generator for the city.

According to the article however, recently the cities have had to pay 50% of the revenues to the states, and now with the accusations that they’re shortchanging the lights, hopefully we’ll see less and less of these stupid camera systems.