Pensacola Mayor D.C. Reeves provided an update on the city’s red light camera program and the search for a new police chief during his weekly press conference, revealing that one intersection accounts for nearly a third of all traffic violations while the city navigates a deliberate selection process for its next law enforcement leader.
Traffic Safety Crisis at 9th and Gregory
The city’s red-light camera system issued 26,085 citations between Feb. 1 and Oct. 31, with one approach at 9th and Gregory emerging as Pensacola’s most dangerous intersection by a significant margin.
“When you have four approaches, Ninth and Gregory is 8,274 for one approach,” Reeves said. “So with a quarter of the directions, just the one westbound area, there’s more there than the next largest intersection that’s tracking all four approaches.”
To put that in perspective, the mayor noted that all four approaches at 9th and Bayou near Sacred Heart and Publix combined generated 7,777 citations—nearly 500 fewer than the single westbound approach at 9th and Gregory near the Bay Center…