SEATTLE — Seattle is another vote closer to doubling the number of school zone speed cameras and expanding this technology into surrounding neighborhoods.
Members of the Seattle City Council Transportation Committee pushed forward on a plan to broaden the network of automated traffic safety cameras that were first introduced nearly two decades ago.
The city currently operates 35 cameras at 19 schools and is looking to add another 37 cameras at other campuses over the course of this year and next. Parking enforcement officers will provide additional staffing capacity for the program.
Committee members went a step further and voted to lift a proviso on $1.18 million to deploy additional traffic safety cameras outside of school zones. This would mark the first time the city has extended its surveillance reach into such neighborhoods…