TUESDAY: City Council’s Transportation Committee focuses on existing traffic-safety cameras

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While adding new types of enforcement/safety cameras has been under discussion in recent years, the city already deploys several types, including school-zone speed-enforcement cameras, red-light cameras, and transit-lane cameras. Are they making a difference? That’s one of the issues set for discussion when SDOT talks about cameras at 9:30 am tomorrow with the City Council’s Transportation Committee, chaired by District 1 Councilmember Rob Saka. You can watch the meeting here and/or get the basics by looking at the slide decks and memo already linked to the agenda. (Info you’ll find includes the fact the city hasn’t installed a new red-light camera since 2013 – West Seattle has two – and new school-zone cameras on the way include California SW near West Seattle HS and SW Admiral Way near the permanent site of Alki Elementary.) This meeting includes a public-comment period, and the agenda has info on that too.

WS Person March 31, 2025 (10:48 pm)

In other words, Seattle government will do nothing to benefit people, and probably tax us more.

North Admiral Cyclist April 1, 2025 (4:48 am)

The more cameras on our streets the better, as far as I am concerned. I’m far more worried about crime than a camera that might record me passing by. Law enforcement needs all the tools they can get.

WS Res April 1, 2025 (6:25 am)

The presentation explains the traffic slowing benefits of cameras. However it makes no mention of cost, nor does it address a public suspicion that traffic cameras are a “for profit” business that sends half the revenue to an out of state company.