New speed and red-light cameras have been installed at Queen Avenue and Geary Street in Albany. I don’t know whether the cameras have gone live yet. And I’m not about to test it by risking a ticket.
Quite a bit of damage has been done at Albany’s Monteith Riverpark since it was reopened in July after more than a year of reconstruction. The city has deployed its camera trailer at the park to try to prevent any more.
Additional details have emerged about the timing of Albany’s project to start or step up photo enforcement of traffic laws at four intersections.
It was in December 2023 that the Albany City Council voted to equip four intersections with cameras to catch speeders and red-light runners. The cameras may soon be installed, and then we’ll see if they yield the anticipated result.
We now have an account of what happened when a car with three people inside crashed through the fence at Third Avenue and Vine Street and landed upside down in the Santiam Canal.
The Albany City Council left several questions unanswered on Dec. 13 when it approved more photo enforcement of traffic laws on city streets.
No cameras for top crash intersections
Safety has been given as the reason for Albany’s red-light cameras and photo radar campaign. So you might think the cameras would be deployed at the intersections with the most crashes. But that’s not the case.
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