(BCN) – California’s first automatic cameras will start issuing categories in San Francisco on Tuesday.
After a 60 -day warning period that started on June 6, the San Francisco Municipal Transport Agency (SFMTA) will start issuing civil speed penalties using 33 cameras installed in all 11 regions of the city starting at 12:01 am on Tuesday.
The fines start from $ 50 to drive from 11 to 15 miles per hour at the maximum speed and increase to $ 500 for any speed exceeding 100 miles per hour. Each quote passes through a series of human reviews to verify the car board number and ensure the accuracy of the ticket before sending it by mail to the drivers, who can expect the martyrs within two weeks of violation, according to SFMTA.
Individuals and low -income families are eligible for reduced fees, they can access them by completing the SFMTA verification form after receiving the quote. Drivers also have the option to complete community service rather than pay.
“The program revolves around transparency and education. It is not related to the arrest of people speed [with] Type of “Gotcha” positions. SFMTA Victoria Wise Street Manager said the speed is not only safe in our streets.
On October 13, 2023, the governor of the state, Gavin News, signed the 645 assembly bill, which authorized experimental programs to enforce automatic speed for a period of five years in six cities in California-San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose, Windle, Wong Beach-in school areas and areas with high destructive rates or documented cases of speed acceleration.
The first group of San Francisco cameras consisting of 13 cameras were activated on March 20, where the remaining twenty was activated on the basis of rolling after that. By June 6, all 33 cameras were operating and the city was warnings to fast drivers, which represents the beginning of the 60 -day period before the ties and fines were managed.
SFMTA data indicates that the presence of speed cameras alone was already sufficient to slow San Francisco drivers. After recording more than 250 daily event events on average for each site for the camera in the first week of full activation, those daily numbers decreased by 31 % after six weeks. In addition, 70 % of the vehicles that received a warning during the trial period did not exceed the camera again.
In addition to an expected 18 -month rating in September 2026, SFMTA plans to put signs of greater speed and additional signs that lead to automatic speed enforcement areas where most violations occur.
“Fast safety cameras are just one component to make sure our streets are safe. There are many different tools that we have in SFMTA, [like] “The street engineering tools that we implement for a long time,” Wiz said.
Revenue from automatic categories to enforce speed will go to the costs of recovering the program, with the expectation that revenues are expected to finance traffic calm measures. SFMTA is required under the law to provide any additional revenues that are not intended to calm traffic for the active transportation program in the state, which encourages California residents to use low -influential transportation options such as walking and cycling.
While city officials began developing the program shortly after the draft law was approved, it faced criticism during the legislative process. In a letter to the California Credit Committee, Advocacy Group Hummwate opposed 645 months before the law, raising fears that the application of automatic speed can impartially affect low income and minorities and reduce the protection of due legal procedures.
“The implementation of AB 645 risks the same results found in Chicago, where between 2015 and 2019, speed cameras included living families in the majority of black and Latin postal symbols at the rate of majority white postal code.”
The group argued that the position of speed cameras is often concentrated in areas with higher rates of accidents, which tend to overlap with neighborhoods that carry services historically.
42 people were killed in traffic accidents in the streets of San Francisco in 2024, the highest total since 2007, where speed was martyred as a major cause of these accidents, according to the Advocacy Walk San Francisco group.
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