Mats Järlström’s victorious 6-year battle over yellow lights
2nd March 2020
Six years ago he tried to tell the Beaverton City Council there’s a problem with its red light cameras. Then there was the State of Oregon, which fined him for practicing engineering without a license.
He had to file a federal lawsuit to continue his research to prove drivers making turns at intersections often get caught in a dilemma when they’re slowing down to make a turn and the yellow light isn’t long enough.
Järlström said he used 8th-grade math skills to prove drivers have been getting tickets they can’t avoid.
March 2nd, 2020 at 10:42
Texas voters managed to get red light cameras abolished, but not before millions of dollars were taken from the public by local governments. This is one of those things that sounds like a good safety practice, but quickly becomes nothing more than a revenue rip-off.