Officials have called off the planned installation of additional red-light cameras at Columbia intersections, saying the targeted sites do not see enough violations to merit the new equipment and that total violations are down. Gatso USA, a Massachusetts-based company contracted by the city to provide equipment and monitor intersections, for the last year and a half conducted surveys at about 40 of Columbia's most- traveled intersections to determine locations for additional cameras, Assistant City Manager Tony St. Romaine said. Gatso concluded equipment costs are too great to justify adding cameras at 11 more intersections, as was previously planned.
Beginning today, warning time is over. Source: Gatso USA, City of Columbia
Just weeks ahead of a state report on red-light cameras, the Columbia City Council learned that the five cameras in place locally provided the city with a small profit and a reduction in accidents. The city did not expect the cameras, which take photos as cars go through intersections against the lights, to cover the costs of police and courts administration and the commission to the contractor, Gatso USA. But of $158,515 collected from 1,665 citations issued in fiscal 2010, the city paid $58,608 to Gatso and spent $81,860 to cover city expenses. That left a city profit of $18,047.
WATERLOO - Waterloo could join a growing list of Iowa cities installing traffic cameras to catch drivers who speed or run red lights. Two companies are vying to install the cameras, the Waterloo- Cedar Falls Courier reported. The city council heard a pitch from Phoenix-based Redflex Traffic Systems last week and spoke to Gatso USA Inc. of Massachusetts last August.
A week after the Columbia City Council shot down a plan for surveillance cameras downtown, the city is moving ahead with its red- light camera plan to target drivers who run stoplights at problem intersections. Source: Gatso USA, City of Columbia
The city of Columbia is negotiating a deal with Gatso USA to install red-light cameras on selected intersections. Test cameras would be in place by July 1. As many as 16 would be installed, subject to recommendations from city police, traffic engineers and the Missouri Department of Transportation. Red-light cameras are somewhat controversial but are receiving growing support from law enforcement agencies and local governments, which simply can't effectively oversee red-light violations with police officers. Experience shows cameras increase the certainty of arrests and intersection safety.
As of this morning, 28 violations had been identified from the city's first week of ticketing via its new red-light cameras. A total of 238 "events" were captured on cameras at two busy intersections from last Friday through yesterday, said Officer Jessie Haden, a Columbia Police Department spokeswoman. Of those, 127 have been processed by Gatso USA, a Massachusetts-based company contracted by the city to provide equipment and monitor intersections. Thirty-eight of those were accepted and sent to Columbia police for further investigation. The company is continuing to process the remaining potential violations. Haden said police determined 28 of the events sent to them were violations, with eight rejected and two still to be processed.
About a month after the city originally planned to have its first red-light cameras up and running, drivers traveling north on Providence Road approaching Broadway were today monitored for the first time by a red-light camera. The city has contracted with Gatso USA to install cameras on 16 approaches, and crews worked throughout July to put up the first two cameras. Crews hit delays because of weather and a hold-up in the delivery of the poles on which the cameras are mounted, Assistant City Manager Tony St. Romaine said. In addition, crews had to bore under Broadway to install wiring, and unexpected buried lines slowed their work.
The city has chosen its next two sites for red-light cameras, but the process of getting cameras in place at 16 intersections is facing delays because of the additional workload the violations are placing on the city prosecutor's office and police. Columbia and Gatso USA, a Massachusetts-based company under contract with the city, have designated the next two intersections that will use photo enforcement to catch motorists who run red lights. Assistant City Manager Tony St. Romaine said a plan to configure camera systems at the intersections of Stadium and Forum boulevards and Stadium and Providence Road is under development and could be presented to the city within weeks.
Three red-light cameras installed last month have not been functioning properly since Thursday. Gatso USA, a Massachusetts-based company contracted by the city to provide equipment and monitor intersections, informed Columbia police recently that the new locations are "down," and replacement units will be installed this week, said spokeswoman Officer Jessie Haden. The locations are the northbound approach to Stadium Boulevard at Forum Boulevard and both northbound and southbound Stadium and Providence Road approaches.
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