More crooks.
. Mayor Adriano Alessandrini is now accused of shortening the duration of yellow lights to boost the profits of the red light camera program. The move paid off, with 2,425,801.60 euros (US $3,206,078.01) in revenue generated from motorists who did not have adequate time to stop, according to prosecution documents. The yellow in this case was set at 4.0 seconds with a "grace period" set to the bare minimum of 0.1 seconds -- settings that are extremely common in the US.
T-Red cameras are often used in a non-transparent way, inconsistent with their purpose," ADOC President Carlo Pileri said in a statement. "In many cases, photo ticketing has been adopted as a way of imposing new, and sometimes absurd, local taxes, solely to swell the municipal coffers."
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