CEDAR CREST, N.M. (KRQE) – It’s an effort to keep everyone safe and to slow drivers down, but are they working? Bernalillo County recently deployed new speed cameras in the East Mountains. “We have identified locations where speeding has been an issue and so the whole point of these cameras is to reduce people’s speed,” said Director of Operations and Maintenance for Bernalillo County Antonio Jaramillo.
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There are a handful of new speed cameras in the East Mountains. There are two new ones on NM 14, one is closer to Frost Road and another is near I-40. Those cameras started issuing citations last week. The county said during the warning period last month, they handed out a lot of warnings to speeders. “The ones on NM 14 I believe we saw about 2,600 citations [warnings] in the first month,” said Jaramillo…