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If you haven’t yet received one of those miserable, godforsaken tickets clocking you in at a brisk 46 mph as you— ahem— keep up with traffic at rush hour on Carnegie, then count your lucky stars (or pat yourself on the back for following speed limits).

But as of Feb. 6, 2014, your chances of being ticketed for traffic violations in Cleveland will increase.

Cleveland’s Department of Public Safety announced this week that five new red light traffic cameras are to be installed and working by the beginning of next month (red light cameras are used to capture images of vehicles that have entered an intersection after a traffic light has turned red).

That’s on top of the 16 Portable Camera Units and 49 fixed units that currently plague our city’s streets.

The good news is the locations of the red light units have already been announced, so you can start practicing your slow and steady stops for the remainder of the month.

We’re left wondering, however, what kind of retaliation this new bout of installations will provoke. If you recall, one of the portable units was set on fire by a frustrated motorist earlier this winter.

This article appears in Jan 8-14, 2014.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

6 replies on “Red Light Traffic Enforcement Cameras Are Coming to Cleveland in February”

  2. Why not toll booths, so the career politicians have an immediate, daily stash to divvy up amongst themselves?

  3. Why not use the cameras to track traffic density in each direction, making sure that the lights are timed to smooth the flow of traffic rather than randomly turn red even when there is no cross traffic? Set up a network with a central traffic timing controller, monitor density on all the roads in the area, and manage traffic light timing to minimize stop times.

    As they are used now, there is no improvement in traffic flow: it just jerks along from light to light.

  4. Cha-CHING! Another reason to go out less…

    Oh…and don’t set out too much trash on your tree lawn when you clean out your garage or your basement…or you’ll be ticketed for that, too. Anywhere from $100 to $500. Not a joke.

    And these pocket-picking bastards wonder why the city continues to shrink by 22 residents PER DAY? Gimme a break!

    Chuckles the Clown

  5. Instead of traffic cameras, they could just install non-sanded wooden poles in the seats of everyone’s car. It randomly pops up during the year and has its way with you, and once activated, the city automatically deducts $100 from your bank account.

    Traffic cameras are basically the same thing, just without the splinters.

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