Youngstown OH

 

Does anyone happen to know any details on the Youngstown OH plans to install speed cameras in school zones?

Found

Found this:
http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/jun/20/cameras-to-be-placed-i...

City council has agreed to place traffic cameras in school zones, but some of the lawmakers say they could be placed elsewhere in the future.

Council voted 7-0 Wednesday to establish laws on the cameras. About 10 will be installed in school areas this summer and be used around the start of the fall semester, primarily to catch those speeding when students come to and leave school buildings.

The ordinance, however, doesn’t restrict the devices from being used elsewhere. There are no immediate plans to move them to other locations, but that could happen at some point, some of the lawmakers said.

“I’m pleased they will be in school zones, but we can expand it in the future if we want,” said Councilman Nate Pinkard, D-3rd, safety committee chairman and retired Mill Creek Park Police Department chief.

But Councilwoman Annie Gillam, D-1st, safety-committee chairwoman, said if a decision is made to place them anywhere else, she’ll “be out there with petitions to make sure they don’t go further than school zones.”

Councilman John R. Swierz, D-7th, a safety-committee member who’s pushed for the cameras for nearly four years, said council doesn’t plan to expand beyond school zones, but added: “As we go through this process, we may have an area with a high rate of traffic accidents” where the cameras can be used for safety reasons.

Council members started talking about cameras in school zones in 2009, and finally selected Redflex Traffic Systems of Phoenix in January as the company to install them. The service is free, with Redflex keeping about 30 percent of the money collected.

The law carries stiff fines — $100 for driving up to 13 mph over the speed limit in school zones, $125 for driving 14 to 19 mph over the limit, and $150 for going 20 mph over the limit. Also, nonspeed-based violations are $100. If a fine isn’t paid in 30 days, $20 is added. It goes to $40 if unpaid after 60 days, and to $60 after 90 days.

Those caught on the camera — which will be turned on only when students are heading to school and leaving when the school day is done — would be charged with civil violations so it won’t impact their driver’s license or registration.

How and by Who...?

The post said in part...

"...the camera will be turned on only when students are heading to school and leaving when the school day is done."

I'm interested in knowing "How" and by "Who" will turn the cameras on and off.

If they're set to automatically do so, then what's going to happen when unexpected circumstances occur on those days school is suppose to be in session... but isn't?

I've seen situations where yellow "School in Session" lights have been activated... but the school wasn't occupied. Situations like that could lead to unjustified tickets being given when none were warranted.

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Right, just another thing to

Right, just another thing to have to fight. We already have a set of lights that have been going all summer long from 8PM to 4AM because it has the time wrong...multiple calls and nothing was ever done. Obviously the pictures will show it's dark, but that means more time from other people's days to fight them.

Bad news

A good reason to avoid Youngstown.

I just hope they put out a

I just hope they put out a list soon so we can update the lists. wink

nothing to fight

ourclemonsfamily wrote:

Right, just another thing to have to fight. We already have a set of lights that have been going all summer long from 8PM to 4AM because it has the time wrong...multiple calls and nothing was ever done. Obviously the pictures will show it's dark, but that means more time from other people's days to fight them.

We have a lot of red light cams. It's very rare that a car goes through them (they must as there were 193,000 doled out last year--but I never see any of those people). It's just dumb. You go to work, and earn say $400/day. Say you pass through 2 on your way to work, would you want to give away $400 in violations? Actually, with deductions and taxes, you'd be losing money going to work.

San Francisco with $480 fines, now maybe you make $600/day and say you pass through 4 red light cams on the way to the train. Now you have 4 violations to the tune of $1920/day.

I think after a while, conventional wisdom says to not run the light.

huh?

tomturtle wrote:

A good reason to avoid Youngstown.

Now I don't know where Youngstown is, but the way I see it, if I did know where it is, and I want to go there, I would. If I knew an intersection were photo enforced, I wouldn't run a red light at that intersection. Why should I have to not go somewhere I want, just because people who run red lights are being fined?

You can go wherever you want

johnnatash4 wrote:
tomturtle wrote:

A good reason to avoid Youngstown.

Now I don't know where Youngstown is, but the way I see it, if I did know where it is, and I want to go there, I would. If I knew an intersection were photo enforced, I wouldn't run a red light at that intersection. Why should I have to not go somewhere I want, just because people who run red lights are being fined?

I don't trust these cameras to be fair or accurate at all, so I avoid them wherever possible. If you are confident that they are fair and accurate, by all means go...

Cameras put on hold...Youngstown OH

Youngstown has put the camera deal on hold until the State of OH finishes it's pending new law that will ban un-manned traffic cameras.

http://www.vindy.com/news/2013/aug/09/city-puts-hold-on-traf...