If you’ve run a red light in Orlando and have gotten away with it scot-free, that could prove to be even more of an outlier experience very soon. Orlando city commissioners on Monday gave a final vote of approval to a significant expansion of the city’s red light camera program, which is intended to deter drivers from illegally running red lights.
“Our goal is to reduce dangerous red light crashes and move toward our Vision Zero mission to eliminate traffic deaths and serious injuries on the city streets by 2040,” Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer said, referencing an action plan first established by city leaders in 2021.
Currently, the city has red light camera detectors set up at just 25 intersections across Orlando, representing just 5 percent of the total intersections with traffic lights. Under the proposal approved Monday, however, the city will now move forward with installing cameras at 55 additional intersections — for a total of 80 covered intersections — that pose a “heightened safety risk.”
Intersections targeted for cameras include Amelia Street and Bumby Avenue, more than a dozen intersections with Colonial Drive (including the no-left-turn Colonial and Mills Avenue intersection), and several intersections with John Young Parkway, Kirkman Road, and Orange Blossom Trail…