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FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by TrafficGuy01
Article Posted 6/9/14

Red-light cameras have been adopted by cities across California to monitor traffic at busy intersections and raise revenue for municipal coffers. The state has the highest red-light violation fine in the country -- a whopping $490.

Several cities in Alameda, San Francisco and San Mateo counties have red-light cameras at busy intersections. However, a mini rebellion has kicked up in the last year or so and some cities have begun dumping the program. Among them are Redwood City, Hayward and Belmont, which scrapped their red-light cameras last year, and San Rafael and Oakland also recently terminated contracts with red-light camera company Redflex. While Redflex is the leading company hired by California cities to catch red-light runners, the company Xerox has cameras at about 26 intersections in San Francisco, and American Traffic Solutions has cameras in Millbrae and South San Francisco. Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties do not use red light cameras.

Bay Area cities that use red light cameras:

Berkeley
Daly City
Fairfield
Fremont
Menlo Park
Millbrae
Napa
Newark
Pleasanton
San Francisco
San Leandro
San Mateo
South San Francisco

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_ ... a-programs
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by kentsmith9
I will work this into the new California page when I complete the new state template for the USA.
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

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The Wiki can use the {{as of}} template to automatically track dated pages like the one we would create here. The California page would then also note the page may be updated periodically.

Do the link provide some kind of RSS feed for changes? I have not looked.
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

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Cameras are too easy to add from the client so people see a "camera" and think they need to add it. The new users reporting camera will tend to eventually give up over time. The cameras they report only stay on the map for about 3 weeks and then automatically expire if not validated by an editor in WME. I personally tend to ignore them in the Bay Area unless we know they should NOT be there, then I remove them.
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by nakedmac
Emeryville removed cameras in 2013 -- TrafficGuy01, I sent you a PM about the two on Powell St. before seeing this post.

Also there was the thread I started from last year. ;)

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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by tonestertm
Just a pointer that someone will need to stay on top of the list as more and more California cities do away with Red Light Cams.

I wonder if we could create some sort of mechanism/reminder/system for people to periodically check on lists like this, which have a temporal nature, rather than leaving it to chance/memory?
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by tonestertm
That one's just a news article. Not sure it would be beneficial to link it.

My experience with Red Light Camera research has usually meant going to a given site for each particular city or their law enforcement and "hand-gathering" the information. There is one independent site which keeps track of all the cities in California and their RLC programs, but I'm a little hesitant to use it as a solid resource. It's good for a starting point, though: http://highwayrobbery.net/redlightcamscameras.htm
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by tonestertm
Please note that Berkeley, Fairfield, and South San Francisco appear to have discontinued Red Light Cam programs.
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Re: FYI List of Bay Area Cities Using Red Light Cameras

Post by TrafficGuy01
Oakland: Red-light cameras brought to abrupt halt

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/matier-ro ... 543220.php

San Rafael opts to discontinue red-light camera program after five years

http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_253 ... ra-program

Red light cameras pulled from many Bay Area cities

http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/bay ... -re/ngJy5/
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