The speed camera that watches downhill traffic on Kipling Street in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, issued 8,879 citations in August and about 8,100 in September, while the camera covering the uphill side issued 628 and 702, CBS Colorado reported on Oct. 27. Drivers who were cited averaged about 52 mph in a 40 mph zone. The fine is $40, it goes to the registered owner by mail, and it carries no points.
That is roughly 17,000 tickets from one camera in two months, on a road where the second camera wrote about 1,330. The Wheat Ridge Police Department says the cameras exist to slow people down. A police spokesman, Alex Rose, told CBS Colorado that speeds are falling 70% to 80% year over year, which he said makes the program “a pretty bad business model” for a revenue generator. CBS did not say what the comparison measured.
Two cameras, one hill
The department announced that a Kipling Street camera between West 32nd and West 34th avenues would send warnings for 30 days before notices of civil violation began Aug. 5, 2026. The city has also designated Kipling a speed corridor, which lets it use mobile cameras along the road, and it has put a fixed camera near West 38th Avenue, according to the Neighborhood Gazette and Denver7…