The speed cameras are working.
That’s according to an Oakland Department of Transportation staffer who briefed the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission meeting last month, who said that 17,000 warnings were issued to vehicle owners in the first five days after they went live, from January 14 to January 19. The 18 cameras were installed near or on some of the city’s most dangerous intersections.
Over the first month of the program, 70,000 warnings were issued citywide. That constitutes, according to OakDOT, about 1% of all drivers on Oakland roads…