Might not be your imagination.
In some locales, city-fathers are shortening the duration of yellow caution lights – you know, going from green to red.
Why?
Simple. To increase the odds that you get ticketed by a red light “safety” camera.
According to a News 10 TV report, in Tampa, the yellow light duration was reduced by a fraction of a second at intersections with red light cameras.
The result: red light tickets and their accompanying revenue more than doubled.
Red light cameras generated more than $100 million in revenue last year in approximately 70 Florida communities,
What’s the impact on traffic safety?
The Homa Files 