City Hustles To Recalibrate After Being Caught With Illegally Short Yellow Traffic Lights
Short lights can be lucrative, and dangerous
VIRGINIA BEACH — Hours after Watchdog.org reported that Virginia Beach was running illegally short yellow lights to trap red-light runners, the city reset its signals to conform to state law.
The change came in the wake of Watchdog questioning the Virginia Department of Transportation about the legality of the city's photo-enforcement program.
State law requires that intersections with ticket-issuing cameras have yellow-light intervals that comply with the methodology recommended by the Institute of Traffic Engineers.
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