Mats Järlström might be giving the state of Oregon a black eye over a yellow light.
He’s gotten international news coverage, including a recent story in the New York Times and reports by other prominent news organizations, after a state licensing board fined him $500 for calling himself an “engineer” after he began a crusade to make traffic lights remain yellow longer.
Järlström lives in Beaverton and the series of events that led to the…