Houston's red-light camera system may not be paying off as expected, according to today's Chronicle: Between Sept. 1, when the cameras went online, and the end of the year only a quarter of drivers ticketed by the cameras had paid their citations. More than 14,000 citations were issued during that time from the 20 cameras in operation, which means around 3,500 of those citations were actually paid. At $75 per citation, that equals $262,500. The...
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The county has enlisted new help in catching chronic toll-road abusers: a group of cameras that catch people who owe thousands of dollars in unpaid tolls. The effort is aimed at catching the top 500 non-toll payers, who owe between $2,000 and $30,000 — though anyone with the mettle to rack up $30,000 in unpaid tolls really deserves some kind of award, we think, even if it is given in jail.
Looks like Houston's red-light camera system has been busy: In the month since the cameras went into operation, they've issued more than 1,600 citations. According to the Chronicle, the cameras at nine locations caught 1,985 vehicles running lights between Sept. 1 and Oct. 6; the 10th location, JFK and Greens, was having technical difficulties.
HPD Chief Harold Hurtt announced yesterday that 10 more red-light cameras are being installed around town, some of them on state-owned roads thanks to a ruling from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Hurtt said the cameras will begin operating in about a month at the East Freeway at Uvalde on the east side, FM 1960 at Tomball Parkway in northwest Houston and eight locations on the southwest side: the West Loop at Westheimer, the Southwest...
Nearly a week into Houston's first experiment with a red-light camera system, we have two interesting pieces of news — well, as interesting as news about red-light cameras can be, that is.
A committee studying crash statistics at Houston intersections has picked the first 10 locations for our new red-light camera system, which is scheduled to be up and running this summer — and all but two of them are outside the Loop.
A divided City Council voted 8-6 today to give the OK to American Traffic Solutions for the installation of red-light cameras across the city. The move ends months of discussion about whether the city should have the cameras and who should install them — or maybe "ends" isn't the right word, as we're sure this won't really be the end of anything.
HPD announced yesterday that it will stick by its decision on a red-light camera vendor despite other companies' complaints that the selection process was unfair.
The city's plan to install red-light cameras at intersections around town was temporarily derailed today when a City Council committee recommended the contractor selection process be redone. Members of the Public Safety Committee said the selection process, which took place earlier this year, was flawed after they heard complaints from the companies that weren't selected for the project.
Just a few weeks after HPD recommended a vendor for Houston's proposed red-light camera system, a competing company is asking the city to reconsider its decision, claiming the police department's evaluation of competing cameras systems was unfair.
The city has finally chosen a company to run its red-light camera system: American Traffic Solutions, which runs similar systems in cities including New York, Seattle and Philadelphia. HPD recommended American Traffic Solutions to City Council yesterday, and the police department will draft a contract with the company during the next month for Council approval.
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