March 31, 2010 in City

Grace period ends on red light cameras

By The Spokesman-Review
 
Tags:Photo Redred light camerasSpokane Police Department

Spokane drivers who run red lights at four new camera-equipped intersections can expect $124 tickets beginning Thursday.

The cameras are located at Freya Street facing north at Third Avenue, Second Avenue facing west at Thor Street, Wellesley Avenue facing east at Ash Street, and Division Street facing north at Sprague Avenue.

Red light runners at those intersections have received only warnings since the cameras were activated March 1, but the warning period ends this week.

Police have approved 416 warnings through those cameras as of March 23. Another 184 are pending.

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Six comments on this story so far. Add yours!

  • tigersarecool on March 31 at 3:25 p.m.

    Warnings over. Time for the big show. Wonder how many people get tickets in the first week? There’s a lot of people out there with heavy lead foots heh.

  • Teseract on March 31 at 6:46 p.m.

    It’s less the people with a lead foot actually running lights, and more the fact that a lot of people are making free rights and rolling over the white line so they can see oncoming traffic triggering the cameras.

    Certainly the beancounters at city hall will cheer, but the judges in the traffic courts will groan at the extra caseload they’ll see with people coming in to get red light tickets thrown out. After all, most of them did nothing worse than roll across a line while trying to see if they could make a right turn without getting plowed by a semi.

  • karl2002 on March 31 at 7:21 p.m.

    First, they have to prove that I received the ticket. Then they have to prove I was the driver of the vehicle. I’ll deny both to the end.

  • misjustice on March 31 at 9:17 p.m.

    klos, simply ignoring a ticket won’t make it go away. My advice, don’t run the light. Additionally, ignoring a ticket could result in having your license suspended and having a bench warrant sworn out against you.

  • upearlier on April 09 at 1:54 p.m.

    Nice picture misjustice! I will be interested to see the impact that the cameras have. They have been very successful in several cities at cutting accidents. I am just hopeful that is the case here.

  • Milan67 on May 21 at 9:21 p.m.

    Whoa is me. Don’t run the red light it will only get you in trouble non-driver.

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