Time's up: Tickets next for red-light runners, speeders

Monday, December 05, 2005

Susan Vinella

Plain Dealer Reporter

 

In a flash, you could owe the City of Cleveland $100.

 

That's how much you will be fined if the city's new red-light cameras, which flash when they snap a picture, catch you illegally running a red light.

 

With the end of the 14-day grace period, when only warnings were issued, tickets should begin to arrive in mailboxes this week.

 

More at:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1133775158224000.xml&coll=2

 

There are some at the corner of Chester and E 71.  I have become very careful at this intersection. 

Good idea wimwar.  Just make sure you look in your rear view mirror to make sure the driver in back of you is paying attention.  There is some evidence that traffic cams actually increase rear-end accidents caused by trailing driverseither following to closely or not paying attention to the driver stopping ahead of them.

^I saw a clip on one of the newstations that most signals will have the yellow light increased from 3 to 4 seconds to alleviate the "panic brake slam" concerns. Supposedly that helps with the issue.

i have to say im glad that these are in place.  just last week i got into an accident in which another car ran a red light and hit me.  i've seen so many people just blatantly go through red lights, its ridiculous. 

I personally wish they would put a red-light camera at Clifton and West 110th - as it is, they're only going to have a speed camera.

 

Last year I was within one foot of being killed (I'm thinking as a pedestrian, getting hit by a minivan at 40ish mph would result in death) by some @sshole who just blew through that light. 

Anyone got a map where the cameras are at?

No map, but here's a list:

 

Red light and speed cameras:

 

Shaker Boulevard at Shaker Square

Chester Avenue at Euclid Avenue

West Boulevard at North Marginal Road

Shaker Boulevard and East 116th Street

West Boulevard at Interstate 90 ramp

Chester Avenue at East 71st Street

East 55th Street at Carnegie Avenue

East 131st Street at Harvard Avenue

Carnegie Avenue at East 30th Street

Cedar Avenue at Murray Hill Road

Grayton Road at Interstate 480 ramp

Euclid Avenue at Mayfield Road

Warren Road at Interstate 90 ramp

Prospect Avenue at East 40th ramp

East 116th Street at Union Avenue

West 117th Street at Interstate 90 ramp

Pearl Road at Biddulph Road

Carnegie Avenue at East 100th Street

Memphis Avenue at Fulton Road

Lake Shore Boulevard at East 159th Street

St. Clair Avenue at London Road

 

Speed only cameras:

Clifton Boulevard between West 110th and West 104th

Chester Avenue between East 55th and East 40th Streets

Woodland Avenue between Interstate 90 ramp and Madison Avenue

Broadway between Harvard and Miles avenues

Lee Road between Tarkington Avenue and Interstate 480 ramp

in case anyone wonder, after one month. The chester Ave & East 71st produced the most tickets. I almost want to say i heard it produced 25% of all tickets....

Article from today's PD:

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1138181530163710.xml&coll=2

 

2,300 caught on camera

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Susan Vinella

Plain Dealer Reporter

In their first month of operation, Cleveland's red light and speed cameras snagged more than 2,300 drivers, and 74 percent of them live in the suburbs or outside the area.

 

The vast majority of the people ticketed -- about 97 percent -- were caught at busy Chester Avenue at East 71st Street, an intersection crossed by many commuters from the eastern suburbs on their way into and out of downtown. The cameras there snap pictures of both red-light runners and speeders.

 

More than 11 percent of those ticketed from Nov. 29 through Dec. 31 live in Cleveland Heights or Shaker Heights, the records show.

 

More at link above:

good find Urban Life!  we even thought enough alike to bold the same line!

wow, my ears need cleaned.

This to me is a good thing.

 

If anyone complains they shouldn't be speeding or running lights, especially suburanites who "claim" the city is bad and think they have a "right to entitlemant" to break the law.  I don't want to hear that lights should be timed better.

 

Hopefully this will stop folks breaking the law.  If they don't like it....use mass transit!  :-P

 

 

yea i dont have an issue with this at all.  i was going through the chester intersection a few weeks ago, slowly... and some moron decided to pass me and speed by, and the lights flickered on the cameras so obviously this is quite a common thing.  i always think of chester as a highway tho, look at how its made.  its a wide street with not much traffic other than cars on it.  its like they're inviting people to speed here with the way its made. 

Context of road design dictates speed, rather than an abritraty speed limit. Build a road wide, barren, and lack of acticity at its edges, it is a visual suggestion to go fast. Build a road narrow and crap going on everywhere people will slow down.

I stumbled across a reference to this link while looking for something entirely unrelated. It's about a year old, and I don't know what the follow-up has been, but I thought it was interesting to read how tough Illinois was planning to get over speeding in work zones, and how they were implementing speed cameras to assist in their efforts. Where a lot of places are imposing what amount to token fines and treating violations as civil infractions that don't affect people's driving records, Illinois was proposing something a lot more severe.

 

http://www.dot.state.il.us/press/r033005.html

don't speed or run red lights!  :-P

Ok.

From now on.

 

Lawyer's loophole beats traffic cameras

Posted by James F. McCarty/Plain Dealer Reporter February 20, 2009 04:30AM

 

Cleveland faces a possible avalanche of court challenges to tickets issued by the city's controversial traffic cameras after a lawyer won an unprecedented court ruling Thursday.

 

Beachwood lawyer Blake Dickson discovered a loophole in a city ordinance that he believes -- and the 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals agrees -- shields drivers of leased or rented cars from exposure to the infuriating cameras.

 

Without quick action by Cleveland to plug the loophole, drivers of leased or rented cars could use the court ruling to fight camera-issued tickets at City Hall, Dickson said.

 

More at:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/02/lawyers_loophole_beats_traffic.html

I just got one of these from a mobile camera that doesn't have a permanent sign posted. I don't recall seeing the portable sign. Can I challenge it? I want to, so very badly.

 

I know it was challenged once before, but that's what led to the new 'portable sign' policy.