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School speed zone will get flashing lights

Written September 10th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

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.

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On photo radar: signs and different laws

Written August 23rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 8 responses.

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?

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Question raised about speed camera signage

Written August 14th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 10 responses.

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.

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N. Albany Road: 900 paid tickets in 3 months

Written August 2nd, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 37 responses.

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.

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Solve speed trap before school resumes

Written July 11th, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 24 responses.

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.

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One month’s toll in tickets and dollars

Written July 2nd, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 16 responses.

Drivers on North Albany Road paid more than $49,000 for speeding tickets they got during May, the last full month of school days since traffic cameras at Thornton Lake Drive went live.

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Can’t always tell what’s a school day

Written May 2nd, 2025 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 17 responses.

Now that speed cameras have begun watching drivers in an Albany school zone, a question that came up four years ago needs to be asked again: “What exactly qualifies as a school day?”

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