Albany’s speed cameras are still catching hundreds of drivers, but not as many as before.
On Monday Police Chief Marcia Harnden sent me the totals for February, and they show fewer tickets than in past months on North Albany and on Santiam roads, the two most productive camera locations in terms of violations.
At each of those two intersections, the police issued fewer than 300 speed citations. That’s down from more than 300 each in the previous previous two months.
Fewer days in February may account for most of the difference but not all. On North Albany Road, for instance, the average daily speed ticket count was 11 in January but less than nine in February.
This bears out what Chief Harnden and other city officials have been saying: The cameras serve to slow traffic over time.
But it also backs up criticism that the cameras don’t increase safety in terms of reducing motor vehicle collisions, which seem to happen at other Albany intersections with some regularity.
Here are the February numbers compiled by the police department. Better see this story on a big computer screen. You can barely see them on a phone. (hh)
It would be interesting to know how many are repeat offenders.
There 10 in February, as shown in the table.
Oh. Thank you! Now I see it. I figured they didn’t include that stat.
Repeat offenders? Some will never learn. What happens to them?
What about how many vehicle accidents in February in Albany?
I wonder when the flashing lights are going to be installed in North Albany
A solution looking for a problem.. Or just a tax on citizens without a vote to approve
I would like to know how to find a list of locations and visual identification of these cameras. i have looked for one but i guess im just not so good at searching on the web.
There’s TWO lists of % locations in the above chart. Hint- look for the 2 boxes with the most words.
“This bears out what Chief Harnden and other city officials have been saying: The cameras serve to slow traffic over time.”
So would speed bumps and they would be much cheaper.
They now have “speed cushions” that can be installed. These are speed bumps with a flat area for emergency vehicles to use. Seems to me that lawless, mostly young people would swerve through those using the emergency vehicle portion of the set-up.
Emergency vehicles don’t break the speed limit, except police.
I didn’t invent the speed cushions….just read about them. I gather that an ambulance would not want to slow down in order to go over a speed bump, and that is no doubt a big reason why the speed cushions were invented. I also know that a fire truck goes as fast as they possibly can, safely, and probably it is better not to put speed bumps in their way
Police cars on their way to a crime scene travel at high speed, too. Yes, they all have sirens to warn us to pull over, but they don’t need to be hampered by traditional speed bumps.