Albuquerque Red Light Cameras

 

Midnight tomorrow the cameras go off...

"The study showed that the cameras did not benefit public safety at six of the intersections," Mayor Berry said. "There is no way we can justify keeping them at these intersections if they are not improving public safety."

Last month, Mayor Berry asked his financial team to generate a report of all of the revenues and expenditures since the program was started in October 2004. The report revealed that in fiscal year 2010, 56-percent of the revenue went to Redflex, the Arizona-based company that administers the program with only 3% going to the City after expenses. The report also revealed that as the contract is currently written, taxpayers will have to supplement more than $340,000 by July to keep the program going.

As a result, Mayor Berry announced that he was going to let the contract with Redflex expire midnight Tuesday and issue a request for new bids. Though Redflex may reapply for the contract, the RFP will open up the process to other companies and ensure that the best contract is negotiated on behalf of the citizens of Albuquerque. A new contract is expected to be sent to the City Council by the end of they year for their consideration. Mayor Berry said he will not sign a contract longer than one year plus options.

"We are going to do our best to keep the good, get rid of the bad and make sure we have a program we can afford," Mayor Berry said.

The City launched a new web site (cabq.gov/redlight) that includes all of the information from the study."

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"It's not where you start, but where you end up." Where am I and what am I doing in this hand basket?

The cameras go off

In my opinion the lack of financial viability for these cameras was due to the driving public learning where they were and avoiding them.

dobs108

reasons

dobs108 wrote:

In my opinion the lack of financial viability for these cameras was due to the driving public learning where they were and avoiding them.

dobs108

change of behavior - that's one of the reason's for putting them up, or at least that's what they say.