Believe it or not, the North Albany speed cameras have provided fodder for yet another story, and this one has a satisfactory ending.
A week and a half after being installed, the school zone lights on North Albany Road are back in the news — well, what passes for news on this site, anyway.
It was six months ago that the Albany City Council voted 6-0 that flashing lights be installed in the school speed zone on North Albany Road. Drivers are still waiting for the lights.
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 […]
If there was a monthly contest among Albany traffic cameras for the most citations issued, it would be a close race. But North Albany Road would have won last month.
In case you’re keeping track, here’s an update on the money angle of Albany’s expanded use of traffic cameras that watch for speed violations and drivers running red lights.
Santiam Road produces bumper crop of tickets
The traffic cameras on Santiam Road in Albany produced 460 speeding tickets in June, making them by far the largest revenue producer of the city’s four sets of speed cameras.
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