[oftenwrong]

>Our neighboring town has a beautiful system in place. It tracks your average speed over +- 100m. If you speeded, you get a fine and even better: the light always turns red and you have to wait for a minute. If you run that red light, you get another (heftier) fine. If you drive normally, the light is always green.

I have never seen a system like that. What town? Or what system?

[mavamaarten]

It's a basic trajectory control system (using ANPR cameras), combined with a red light camera. They read your license plate twice in different locations to determine how long you took to drive a section of road. They're very common here in Belgium, but it being coupled to a red light is not that common. They even have a sign that says "too fast = red light + fine".