May 13, 2008
Red Light Cameras Coming Soon
Like it or not, Austin's new red light cameras are slated to be put into service by Memorial Day weekend.
Dubbed the "Keep Austin Safe" program, the photo-based system will be first activated at the intersection of I-35 and 11th Street. Eight others will gradually come online over the next few weeks.
Each violation will set you back $75, unless you're able to prove one of a variety of extenuating circumstances—if you entered the intersection to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle, for example, or if your car was stolen.
Intersections selected for camera installations include:
- I-35 northbound service road and 11th Street
- Riverside Drive and Pleasant Valley Road
- Mopac (Burnet) northbound and Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway
- Mopac (Burnet) southbound and Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway
- Lamar Boulevard. and Ben White Boulevard eastbound
- Mopac southbound service road and U.S. 290 eastbound
- I-35 south bound service road and 15th Street
- Lamar and Ben White (or Capital of Texas Highway) westbound/northbound
- I-35 southbound service road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
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The photo you used for this post is misleading. That's a camera, yes, and it's near a red light, yes. But it's not a "red light camera." It's a camera used for vehicle detection (to determine how long to leave a left turn arrow lit, for example).
Here's what the "red light cameras" look like:
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/13/dyc-red-light-camera-4.html
Yet Running an intersection is STILL cheaper than the $500 fine for jaywalking in Austin. Let alone speeding.
/Got a jaywalking ticket
//Got a lawyer
///Judge wanted $250 and 15 hrs comm service.
////Only paid $100