¥In this regard the National Motorists Association posted a $10,000 dollar challenge to any camera location to apply the known engineering
safety countermeasures to improve both compliance and safety. Not a single city took the
challenge.
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¥Therefore only one conclusion can be made. The camera operators and their clients are profiting from unsafe practices. This is
not safety, itÕs revenue at its worst. These short yellows cause significant
numbers of unnecessary injuries and deaths and there is no
reason whatsoever not to correct this, except money.
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¥Studies show 80 percent of the citation revenue is generated in the first second after the yellow interval change and in every camera location the yellow interval is greater than one second too short. Moreover, the yellow
is only the time it takes to stop or
proceed from the limit line, and does not include the time it takes to actually clear an intersection.