Traffic cameras at four Albany intersections yielded 747 tickets last month, the vast majority of them for speed violations. The average speed on all those tickets was 35.1 miles an hour.
The camera flashes actually went off far more often. They recorded 2,789 “events,” but most of those resulted in no one being cited.
“Not all events end up as a ticket,” Police Chief Marcia Harnden explained in an email. “Some might be rejected based on a driver mismatch, bad read on a license plate, or other reason why the officer did not issue a ticket.”…