Only 9 ? Don ' t look for any improvement , more likely it will get worse than it is now . Consider that with the current fine , points and insurance premium boost getting popped for playing with your phone will cost you nearly $ 1000 and after a short lull when the fine got boosted , it ' s back to being ignored . It basically comes down to enforcement that recalibrates people ' s willingness to ignore traffic laws . Putting more cops on the road is incredibly expensive and if you ' re an elected official it ' s easy to see the calculation between boosting taxes to fund it v . some ugly stats in the Sun that will be forgotten in a week . Vancouver has the worst pedestrian injury fatality rates in Canada and in the top rank in N America and I ' m fairly sure this is directly related to stop light sign running . Until you can make it a political winner to do something about to the tune of more than a few million $ for added enforcement , I ' d just learn to adapt .