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Re:Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconsti... by digitalPhonix on Monday March 09, 2026 @07:29PM (#47317200)
> generally because the operators lower the yellow light time to increase fees

I'm skeptical of this claim because the red light camera operators are usually contracted by municipalities. They don't have any direct control over the light cycles.

(Yes, obviously they can be in cahoots with the municipality, but I would be surprised if that was common and not the exception)

Do you have any evidence of this?

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Re:Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconsti... by 1123581321 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:17AM (#47319321)
Chicago is one publicized example. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/10/chicago-shortens...
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Re:Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconsti... by digitalPhonix on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @01:54AM (#47319500)
I am chosing, perhaps naively, that the Chicago red light cameras are an exception and not common because that whole process was criminal: https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/former-redflex-ceo-sent...
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Re:Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconsti... by 1123581321 on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:32AM (#47323027)
That I couldn’t say. It at least provides a model. Most city or county governments have some influence over their traffic engineering or streets staff as far as high level planning concerns.
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