Is this a Traffic Camera?

It could be a traffic control or security if in fact it is a camera...

I tend to agree with you Gary

Send me the location through my contact tab and I will find out what that is for you.

Miss POI

I think it looks more like a traffic or security cam than a speed camera w/ photo radar. Perhaps some of your local stations use it when reporting traffic. Your state highway may have a list of traffic cameras.

If you could read what's on the box, you could pretty much tell for certain as well as who probably owned it. The pole is too low for a traffic cam.

It is not a ticket Camera, but is most likely traffic monitoring and feeds the video back over a high speed data line to the Department of Transportation traffic flow monitoring center. Some municipalities also use this type of camera to monitor high crime areas and feed the signal to the police department dispatch center.

a traffic control camera to me.

Most of the cameras in Arizona used as speed cameras have multiple arms to hold stobes and other things to make the cameras work.

The red light cameras here are usually larger than the housing on the one shown in N.J. It is definitely a camera housing in the photo and it is definitely focused in only one direction. Some security cameras I have seen can be controlled to move around their pivot point on the pole where they are located, but they are mostly top-mounted rather than side as the one in the photo. Most of the traffic monitoring cameras on the freeways here in Arizona have the ability to change direction after receiving a signal from a control center so they can monitor in a few different directions. These cameras usually have a circular aluminum antenna mounted in a vertical circle around the camera and are usually along a freeway access road, a tunnel or some other intersection of interest to ADOT or a municipality.

I wonder if there have been problems in the area with copper theft or vandalism to other utility type equipment? The utility company may be attempting to protect the transformer or something else in the photo with a security camera.

...on the same road.

I-287 has a fair amount of small cameras mounted up high. You can view them from the web.
http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/traffic/cameras/rt287/...

For reference here's where this thing lives:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=...

I noticed it's connected to a high voltage transformer (or something HV).

Could it be a laser weapon that will pulverize any speeders on the road?

I haven't been able to correlate this with any of the live traffic cams.