The data is in. Oakland’s new speeding camera program began ticketing on March 15, and the cameras have resulted in more than 2,000 speeding tickets a day.
According to a May 7 presentation at Oakland’s City Hall by Craig Raphael, the Oakland Department of Transportation’s speed safety camera program manager, for the Institute of Transportation Engineers, the speeding cameras that went live in January at 18 locations in Oakland are giving out lots of tickets.
From January 15 to March 14, the 35 cameras — a pair at most locations — only resulted in warnings. But since March 15, Oakland has issued any second-time offender a speeding ticket. First-time offenders traveling between 11 and 15 miles per hour over the speed limit will continue to receive warnings, as required by the state law that sanctioned the pilot program…