WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. — It’s been more than a year since Wheat Ridge expanded its use of automated traffic enforcement, and police say speed cameras have already started changing driver behavior.
Lakewood resident Scott Huwes told Denver7 that his wife recently caught speeding on Kipling Street, one of the four locations where the cameras are installed.
“She was doing 51 in a 40, and they sent her a little thing in the mail,” said Huwes. “It’ll deter me, that’s for sure, and my wife also.”
Wheat Ridge police said that’s exactly the point of these cameras. Not to write more tickets but to change behavior, and their data shows that’s already working…