The article above is a re-print by the account "BJS" - it does not reflect the opinion of the poster (or bot)... It/He/She doesn't "know" it any more than you or I since it/he/she wasn't the one who wrote the original article or summary.

But, if I may inject my own opinion here about what you have said:

The idea of tickets is not revenue generation per se - it is to provide a financial discouragement that is (hopefully) proportional to the infraction of the law that took place - as well as providing an offset to the cost of enforcing the laws.

Above all this though is the fact that WE are the government and all that happens should be to our group benefit as a society. If the policy of traffic light cameras is so detrimental to the common member of society, causing more accidents and raising insurance premiums, well then we can and should do something. The government is an extention of our will.

Eric