The city of Albany’s new speed cameras on North Albany Road will come with warnings that indicate when the school zone speed limit of 20 mph is in effect.
A few days ago a reader said in the comments on a traffic-camera story that he was mailed a warning ticket for speeding on Santiam Road near Geary Street. He hadn’t seen any signs about cameras, and what, anyway, is the posted speed?
Albany city officials are scrambling to clear up questions about the school zone speed cameras on North Albany Road. But they say signs warning drivers of photo enforcement there were placed in compliance with state law.
A new question has come up about the traffic cameras in the school zone on North Albany Road, which generated hundreds of speeding tickets in the last few weeks of the school year that ended on June 13.
Albany drivers caught by photo radar in the school zone on North Albany Road paid the city almost $150,000 during the last three months of the school year just past.
Complaints about the speed camera on North Albany Road keep coming up at Albany City Council meetings, and city officials should do something in response before school resumes in the fall.
Going back to flashing lights on N.A. Road
No one knows how much time it will take to carry out the Albany City Council’s direction to install flashing lights in the school zone on North Albany Road. The lights are to tell drivers that the speed limit is 20 mph, not 40 as at other times.
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