NEWBERG, Ore. — The Newberg-Dundee Police Department plans to install a new automated speed enforcement camera near the intersection of 1st Street and Garfield Avenue in downtown Newberg within the next several weeks, the City of Newberg announced Tuesday.
The camera is a portable unit that will capture speed violations only and is not connected to a traffic signal. Its placement may be adjusted over time depending on its effectiveness in reducing speeds through the downtown corridor, according to the city.
The announcement comes after NDPD conducted a traffic survey in May that counted more than 91,500 vehicle passages through the 1st and Garfield intersection over a seven-day period. Of those, more than 39,000 vehicles exceeded the posted 25 mph speed limit, and more than 990 were traveling 11 mph or more above the limit — a rate the department said translates to more than five citable violations per hour, around the clock…