Ticket system starts Thursday in Lacey, delayed on I-5

[Chief]

http://www.theolympian.com/570/story/435382.html

THE OLYMPIAN

The first red-light cameras in Thurston County will click on Thursday.

Two camera systems will monitor westbound and eastbound traffic on Pacific Avenue at Sleater-Kinney Road. Violators will receive warning notices for the first month. Starting June 1, they will be mailed $124 citations.

City officials say the program is intended to be “revenue-neutral” and that the motivation is public safety.

The city has contracted American Traffic Solutions to install and operate the cameras for $9,200 a month. The city only will receive money if fines collected cover the fees and any unpaid balances.

Meanwhile, the state Department of Transportation has postponed the launch of its first automated ticketing system in construction zones along I-5 near Chehalis and Grand Mound.

The program was tentatively scheduled to start Thursday and is expected to go online later this construction season, said Alice Fiman, a WSDOT spokeswoman.

**SCHNIPP**

Ya know....if America's The 'Couv were to invest in these red-light cameras at the right intersections, and make the fines high enough, they could pay for some of the things we need...

;)

[Waterbuffalo]

Wasn't there a discussion and presentation about Red Light Cameras in front of the City of Vancouver council meeting about a month or so ago?

From my memory here, there was a nice discussion of it here at Clarkblog.org.

Could not find it in the archives but do remember several posts to you Chief. Do you know where it was?

Now my second question, Automated ticketing systems along I-5 near Chehalis and Grand Mound? This is a first in the state of washington I have heard of it used on an Interstate. How would one of these work?

[Waterbuffalo]

Ahh yes a minute or two after I posted this, remembered that they were using trucks or an suv with a camera in the back doing this automated speed zone ticketing on that construction zone.