EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — In a mountain town with a population of slightly more than 600, you wouldn’t expect speeding to be an issue.
But third-year mayor Todd Dixon said that it’s what his constituents ask him about the most.
“We don’t have a 24/7 police force,” he explained. “We just have a marshal and a deputy, and obviously, they can’t be here every day, 365 days a year.”
The mayor stated that a 24-hour traffic survey conducted by Marshal Sean Goings found that between 40 and 60 vehicles traveling through town were exceeding the 25 mph speed limit by at least ten or fifteen miles per hour.
Dixon said that Goings found a solution.
“Earlier this year — probably in August or September — the marshal came to us and said there was a company that would, basically, put a speed camera in,” the mayor recalled. “And they would just share in the revenues from the tickets. That’s how they would get paid. So, it’s literally a no-cost issue for the town.”…