After getting a red light camera ticket at a busy Tampa intersection, a viewer has some questions about the rules of the road.

Maureen Breslin has lived in Pinellas County for a year, and she's still finding her way around the Bay area. She has a new grandson in Tampa and so she makes the trip to south Tampa frequently, taking I-275 to Gandy Boulevard, then across the Gandy Bridge.

"Then all that construction on Gandy...but by far the most difficult part of the trip is that light on Gandy at West Shore," she said.

Breslin said that on a good day it takes four cycles of the light to get through. In her route, she makes a left from Gandy to North Shore Boulevard. What many cars will do is creep into the intersection and wait for a break in oncoming traffic.

"Well, apparently that's what I did one day, early June," she said. "And it was not a good day because the camera caught me more than halfway through the intersection. The rear bumper of my car with the license plate...and the light was red."

Tampa police spokesperson Andrea Davis looked into the intersection and found that red-light running has dropped over the years.

"Over the past four years , May 2011 to May 2015, red-light running at this intersection has gone down by 66 percent, indicating a change inb behavior," Davis wrote in an email.

In 2011, 712 tickets were issued to red-light runners. In 2015, that number dropped to 240.

Regarding Breslin's ticket specifically, she didn't know that in Florida, the rule says you shouldn't pull into an intersection unless you can clear it. The fact that she was in the middle of the intersection when the light turned technically showed her as running the light.

"I'll never go out into that intersection again," Breslin said. "I'll always wait for it to cycle and not worry about anybody behind me."