City's 'Gotcha' Traffic Cameras Use Short Yellow Lights to Increase Ticket Revenue: Study

May 23, 2018 • 13:41

City's 'Gotcha' Traffic Cameras Use Short Yellow Lights to Increase Ticket Revenue: Study

Article is from 2012. RLC towns love to use short ambers to churn tickets.

The city Department of Transportation says the standard time it sets its yellow lights at is about a second for every 10 mph of the speed limit […] the AAA engineers found that the city’s yellow lights at intersections with cameras were coming in as low as 2.53 seconds.

Read the full article at New York Post.

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