Shorter Yellow Lights A Safety or Business Issue

San Diego reduces half a second to one tenth of a second to help prevent collisions at intersections resulting from drivers running red lights. The city council claims they could have issued 65% more ticktes if the time was reduced. Is this a saftey issue or business issue? Shortening the time will generate the city $191,000 annually in added revenue, city staff told the council. The program is slated to generate $1.52 million in total revenues in fiscal year 2007. The city's red-light camera program was first initiated in 1998, but halted in 2001 after lawsuits were brought over the way the program was run. The city restarted the program in 2003.