Shorten lights, set up cameras, and collect revenue for increasing danger to motorists.

I can't even comment coherently on This. Cities
making traffic intersections more dangerous in an effort to raise
red-light-camera revenues.

A couple Articles

An article on the interesting case of the West
Mephis Three, who I'd not heard of before. I'd like to look into this
further.

I just like to title of this one, from El Reg: Ethanol
Cars Run On Human Misery