On Thursday, the Lubbock, Texas city council voted to delay installation of red light cameras after a local television station exposed the city's short timing of yellow lights at eight of the twelve intersections where the devices were to be installed. The person responsible for retiming the lights should be jailed for a term of no less than 20 years. This is deceiving the public for gain, and it causes more accidents, andangering the public. It's also a breach of faith in government officials.
Agree, those short timings should gain that engineer a charge of negligent homicide for any fatalities at those intersections. The insurance companies should sue the city for all the accidents at the intersections to recover their costs.
That Texas study about the huge decrease in problems with an added second tells me even the standard timings are geared more towards someone with NASCAR reflexes than the general driving public. Tar and feather time.