>Others prop up their budgets using traffic cameras, parking citations or code enforcement violations. I saw my town make over $1,200 within a split second the

>Others prop up their budgets using traffic cameras, parking citations or code enforcement violations. I saw my town make over $1,200 within a split second the other night. I was stopped waiting at a red light, as cars were passing in front of me. The light turned yellow, then red, then not even what seemed like a nanosecond after it might have turned red... 3 cars entered the intersection and the light flashed 3 times. $400, $800, $1,200... all within less than a second, for an infraction so minor that even a police cruiser sitting in my exact same position would have probably sloughed off as being "close enough". Not to mention, these cameras probably cost orders of magnitude less than a human police officer and a dedicated cruiser. All I am getting at is, from a business standpoint, it's obvious why these are so popular with poor municipalities. Once again, the rich get richer, and the poor get kicked on their way home from their 3rd job with a $400 fine for being a nanosecond later than an ambiguously timed light decided they should have been. This is not going to change unless federal legislation forces it to.