Try livin in DC where there are speed cameras too...it's a pain but you need to learn where they are and adjust your driving accordingly. Virginia stopped using red light cameras because they learned that there was a increase of accidents at red light cameras because of people slamming on their brakes so they don't catch the light and the folks rear ending them. Fighting is worthless, it isn't worth the extra court fee to go and fight it because there are only two ways to get out. One the camera isn't working right. To prove that you need to hire a 'specialist' to go test the cameras and see if it is malfunctioning...that will cost more than the ticket. The other way to get out is if there was an emergency vehicle coming and you needed to get out of the way...the kicker is that the emergency vehicle has to be in the picture for you to get out of it... And not that I am defending the cameras because I hate them, but the way they work is that they have installed plates in the white lines before the intersection...and if you drive over them as the light is turning red the camera goes off...so there is no way you are in the middle of the intersection, the light turns red and you get caught...it doesn't work that way...it isn't run by motion sensors...you have to be really running the red light for it to go off...unless of course it is malfunctioning which could always be the case. As for changing the timing of the yellow light that was common place in DC until they removed the 'commission' based contracts where the companies got a % of the fines. Once they became a straight $$$ amount contract somehow the cameras became magically timed correctly.

Oh and one more thing. You won't get any points on your license...at least in MD,VA (before the camera were shut off), DC and Delaware you won't. I can't vouch for CA or anywhere else. It's just a flat fine.

One more thing...promise. I tried that whole pay the fine a dollar extra and then don't cash the refund for a speeding ticket. They just cashed my check and never sent me a refund at all...jerks.