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When Asarulislam Syed went to traffic court last week, he was prepared. He had gone out to California Avenue and Oak Street, the intersection where he’d gotten a ticket, with a stopwatch and a video camera. The result was a DVD showing, conclusively, that the yellow light on the left-turn signal lasts 3.6 seconds. He had a speed-limit map from the city, showing that Oak Street’s speed limit is 40 mph where it crosses California. He had a chart from a state manual, showing that when the speed limit is 40 mph, a yellow light should last 3.9 seconds. And he had the section of state law that said if a city uses red-light cameras, the yellow lights must meet the standards in the state manual. But he had missed one thing: The page that said the chart applies to through-lane lights, not to protected lefts. Syed got his documents from the city’s traffic engineering department, including a variety of pages from California’s Manual of Uniform Traffic Control...
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