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The cities in question are really small towns: West Miami is about 7000 people, per the article. That makes the statistics a little bit less astonishing: these aren't huge towns or cities that are substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes; they're small bedroom communities on busy roads between nearby big cities.

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>these aren't huge towns or cities that are substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes; they're small bedroom communities on busy roads between nearby big cities

Those aren't really contradictory. You can be a "small bedroom community" but still be "substituting red light tickets for proper local taxes".

Sure. And given that it's Florida, they probably are. But I still think the headline here gives a misleading impression: a town with a small tax base but a busy road is naturally going to get a larger fraction of revenue from a red-light camera than a town with a larger tax base would.

No kidding. The article content really doesn't support the title at all.

A town of 7000 people issued 3000 citations in a year, but the town itself has a major road in it connection other larger towns.

Even given that, it isn't the largest source of income for the city (property taxes are #1).

There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights.

>There's an easy way that the average person can fix this problem: stop driving through red lights.

That's hard to do safely when they shorten the yellow-light time so that you have no warning that the light will turn red.

Might work where you live. A huge portion of my city has foreign plates or straight up illegals driving, they don't give a fuck about a camera and can, will, and have totaled my car for playing the safe stop fuck fuck game. Nope nope nope if the intersection is clear I'm not getting my car totalled again by the tailgater behind me just to satisfy the law.

> safe stop fuck fuck game

The what?

Strike that, legal stop

If you have to ask, big boy, you can’t afford it

> stop driving through red lights

I'm with you. Make it impossible by replacing them with roundabouts and traffic circles.

Can't drive through the red light if there isn't one taps forehead

I can't replace intersections. I can stop for red lights, though.

FL gonna FL. Route 301 was notorious for nearly 2 decades for revenue driven speed traps.

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