Lee on red light camera revenue projections for expanded program
Lee calculates potential $199.7M in additional annual revenue if cameras expanded to 1,325 intersections. Beaton clarifies the state authorization only permits 600 intersections.
In the council's budget response, we noted that there were 211 red light cameras mounted around the city, which accounted for $31.8 million in revenue, or approximately $150,710 per camera.
If the red light cameras program were to be expanded to 1,325 intersections as contained in the state authorizing bill, additional $199.7 million could be generated annually based on the fiscal 2025 revenue numbers.
Does DOT and the administration support expanding the red light camera program to the scale prescribed in the state authorizing legislation?
Can you just say the front part one more time?
I just want to make sure I have the details crisply.
Yeah, so it's 211 red light cameras mounted currently with roughly 31.8 million in revenue.
So if you take that same sort of breakdown,
If the program were to expand to 1,325 intersections, as was in the state authorizing bill?
The state authorizing bill is only for 600 intersections.
The 1,350 was the original negotiation point.
The 2025 negotiations for the reauthorization that reflected, I think, 10% of all intersections, which is where that number came from.
But we're only authorized up to 600 intersections.
Okay, so given that it's 600.
Would that concurrently, in terms of the ratio of the amount of revenue generated, do you foresee that being the same sort of ratio of the revenue that's being generated in proportion?