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by ealloc 3377 days ago
An example of what I would consider red-light camera abuse:

Philadelphia has a number of red light cameras which each generate about 10,000 tickets a year. That's about 30 tickets a day for each camera, $100 per ticket. 12 cameras generate $9 million a year [1].

If 30 people are "running" the red light each day, does that say more about the drivers or about the setup of the red light?

[1] http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/traffic/transit/Red-Light-Cam...