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Tuesday, June 6, 2017

LFP Council considers expansion of traffic cameras

Reactive traffic camera and add
two more at Ballinger and Bothell Way
At its 7pm meeting on Thursday, June 8, the Lake Forest Park City Council will consider a resolution to authorize expansion of the Traffic Safety Photo Enforcement Program.

Cameras would be added to the Intersection of SR 522 / Bothell Way NE and SR 104 / Ballinger Way NE, and the previously terminated NE 170th Street location would be reactivated. Staff documents.

The 6pm work session will focus on the consultant's report for the Safe Streets Project, with a discussion led by City Engineer Neil Jensen. Staff documents.

To view staff documents, click the PDF link in the agenda item.

Both meetings will be held in the City Hall Council Chambers, 17425 Ballinger NE, 2nd floor.



3 comments:

  1. Hurray! If you don't want a ticket from a traffic camera, drive the speed limit. And don't yap about privacy - if you're out in public in a potentially lethal weapon I deserve to be kept safe from your choice to flout the law -

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  2. The problem with the cameras in LFP is that the money has never gone directly to traffic and public safety. It has been filtered through the general fund which has paid for all sorts of things before eventually filtering to what the money should be for. At the present, number indicate that revenues from the cameras generate over 10% of the received monies in the city.

    We should ask why other local cities like Shoreline, Kenmore and Bothell have not fallen prey to the siren song of red light camera money.

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  3. We'd be better served by pulling over drivers with cell phones on their ear.

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