text: IRT Gail Tagashira, I respectfully disagree. I think red light cameras are badly needed. Any driver can see that more and more people are running red lights and many times it's not even close. I've seen drivers hit their gas pedal easily 50 yards before entering an intersection that has already turned red. Prolonging the yellow light, which has already been done, will only give the drivers more reason to think they have more time. If the program cost LA $1M each year, I think that's a reasonable cost to hopefully start slowing some of these people down. Even if many of them win in court I think the inconvenience of going there will slow most reasonable people down.