FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The City of Fort Collins is turning to automated cameras and a mobile van in order to catch speeders in the city’s “speed corridors.”
The speed corridors were determined based on five years of traffic data. Lieutenant Michael Avrech with the Fort Collins Police Services said the data allowed them to narrow in on specific problematic roadways.
“We were looking specifically at crashes where serious injuries occurred or fatalities, and then incidences of writing citations for speeding and reckless driving,” said Avrech.
Twenty-one stretches of roadway were listed as speed corridors, including six intersections:
- Drake Road and Lemay Avenue
- Harmony Drive and Timberline Road
- Harmony Road and Shields Street
- Prospect Road and Shields Street
- Mulberry Street and Shields Street
- College Avenue and Drake Road
Red-light cameras at the intersections will be converted to automatic radar cameras, which will ticket speeders.
Denver7’s Ethan Carlson