Cameras have been tracking the speeds of Colorado drivers along Highway 119 for months, resulting in slower drivers and ticket fines that are funding the program’s expansion. The Colorado Department of Transportation reports that enforcement cameras along that highway have already resulted in thousands of tickets.
Since January, drivers traveling between Longmont and Boulder on Highway 119 have received nearly 10,000 tickets for speeding through the work zone.
At $75 per ticket, those fines have totaled more than $700,000. CDOT says that figure does not include the more than 30,000 warnings issued last year when cameras were first installed…