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BOSTON -- Fewer Bay State drivers are appealing auto insurance surcharges for accidents or traffic violations, even though the odds of winning an appeal are favorable, a study by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting has found.

Have you ever suspected that your city or town is trying too hard to catch traffic scofflaws in the pursuit of ticket revenue? A Florida woman received a ticket based on evidence from a red light camera, but believed the ticket was unfair because the yellow light was too short. The power of math proved that she was correct..

The State of North Carolina issued a letter to justify enforcement of traffic laws "due to constant complaints about officers enforcing traffic laws.

Light up city by harvesting renewable energy contained in the air turbulence generated by passing traffic

Some cities have been shortening yellow lights to nab drivers with a ticket. But studies show that they're raking in the bucks at the expense of public safety.

On the drive to work I heard that California fialed to get a budget worked out. The roads were still there. The traffic lights still worked. My lunch didn't kill me. Children weren't beaten in the streets. Nothing changed. Those of us that get up and go create a vuluable good or service have continued about our business.

The root cause of everything from street muggings and gang delinquency to rudeness at traffic lights to excessive lawsuit filing has finally been found, and it's...libertarianism. At least that's the view of Andrew Peyton Thomas, an attorney with the state of Arizona.

A QUICK jog across a road to return a DVD and avoid traffic lights cost a man more than $300 after he was convicted of jaywalking.

Washington DC has already begun ripping up streets in certain areas of town, making the already horrible traffic even worse. This is done in an effort to reintroduce a streetcar network to complement the existing subway and bus systems. But now, a bureaucratic battle over a 120 year old laws against overhead power lines puts a little snag in the plan. It seems that the city planners didn't check the law books to see if their plan would be in total compliance.