Where I live, in California, they shortened the yellow traffic lights by a second or two after installing red-light cameras as a way of boosting revenue by ticketing drivers with slower reflexes who had grown accustomed to the longer yellow lights.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I was visiting family in NJ, and learned from a friend's report that the police had started ticketing highway drivers who were in the left-most lane who were not in the midst of passing anyone. Failure to keep right is now penalized with hefty fines.

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It's about time! Keep right except to pass is not a suggestion, it's the law (yeah, one of those pesky things).

Uh, "Duh!" The laws are only enforced for the purposes of generating revenue.

I don't know how it's handled in the rest of the country but here in Minnesota people drive in the far left lane all the time, and in 20+ years of driving I've never been ticketed for it. Sounds like one of those laws on the books that nobody bothers to enforce because just about everyone realizes it's stupid. So if the state decides to suddenly start enforcing it tomorrow is it legal? Sure, but it's still a dick move and more about increasing revenue than public safety.

I've received more parking tickets in the last year than my entire life. And a single PARKING ticket is as much as 2 and a half parking tickets were when I last received one. Jesus. 50+ dollars per ticket and I have had around 10 of them. Honestly, I don't know if I can really blame anyone other than me for not adapting to this shit, but I haven't changed my parking or driving habits... I drive and park the same as when I rarely received a ticket.

Anyhow, I'm adapting now -- but it's like driving into a storm.

That's crappy, but still better than over $300 for going 7 mph over the limit on a quite rural highway (299 in N Cal), the last speeding ticket I got (and the only one in over 5 years). I also have no one to blame but myself, though. It's not like I didn't know the law, or understand there are consequences. I was just surprised how much those consequences cost these days.
That said, they have not gone up in price even the same amount (%) my water bills have, or gas, or insurance, etc. in the same time period, so I can't call it gouging or outrageous...at least not more outrageous than the rest of inflation.
It's confusing when laws that have either been ignored or barely enforced in the past are suddenly being enforced more harshly, but those laws are on the books for a reason, they should not have been ignored in the first place (or should have been removed if that was acceptable). These laws (traffic laws) are designed to make driving safer and traffic flow better. They are more important today than ever, with our ever more crowded, ever more in need of repair roads, to make an unsafe practice (driving) much safer for us all, and to help make outrageous traffic flow better.