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Traffic cameras will be installed on the corner of El Camino Real and Millbrae Avenue.
MILLBRAE (Map, News) - A new set of eyes will soon be perched atop two major intersections, more than a year after city officials expected to install additional traffic cameras to catch red-light runners.
The city’s first camera was installed in September 2006 on the corner of Millbrae Avenue and Rollins Road, where 30,000 to 40,000 drivers pass through each day. A new camera will be installed on the corner of El Camino Real and Millbrae Avenue. Another new red-light camera will be placed at the Millbrae Avenue off-ramp for southbound U.S. Highway 101.
Each location has been targeted by the city for such a camera for more than a year.
Millbrae police and City Engineer Khee Lim said they met with Caltrans last week and were able to overcome stumbling blocks that had prevented the city from receiving state permits to install the camera. The El Camino Real camera was supposed to be installed in April 2007 but the city needed to show it was needed and would be run effectively, officials said.
“[The cameras] should have been in by now,” said City Manager Ralph Jaeck.
The city will receive the permits from Caltrans within one or two months and have the cameras up and running within 10 weeks afterward, said Lim and police Sgt. John Aronis.
The cameras run constantly and take photos of drivers as they pass illegally through red lights. Motorists are then issued tickets for traffic violations worth $358.50 after a 30-day grace period following the installation.
Police have also been receiving a lot of calls from motorists wondering why the current camera flashes even when there is no red-light infraction, Aronis said. The police and the vendor of the cameras, American Traffic Solutions, have decided on a confidential speed that sets off a camera flash without issuing tickets, Aronis said.
The camera’s most noteworthy use came in October when Burlingame police released images caught by the camera of a suspected killer. After Londell Wilson was fatally shot in his Honda on U.S. Highway 101 on Sept. 30, police used the camera to identify suspect vehicles. A person watching the news saw the vehicles and led police to alleged killer Doyal Malcolm Webber.
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Examiner Reader said:
I guess SF really doesn't want people to come to the City! What a load of crock. Nobody in the SF govt has any business sense. Great, kill the goose that lays the golden eggs (businesses and sales taxes).
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just shoot me said:
sweet - another friggin toll. I already pay $1000/month in commute costs.
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Examiner Reader said:
If there were a viable, reliable CLEAN option then people would be able to not drive. Without that option people must drive. Clean up MUNI, make it dependable and regular and co- ordinate with other transit agencies and people will want to get out of their cars. As it is if you are in a hurry or out of communte hours MUNI is not an option. Also, I am unclear why people love BART!. Signage is pathetic and it is NOT co-ordinated with MUNI or Golden Gate transit, what's the point? Take a look at NYC, London or Paris to get a look at what good transit systems are. Funny, their workers show up and they keep to a timetable. Maybe we could try doing that?
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Bruce Simmons said:
for one, I don't understand how it cost $30 million to instigate the deployment of traffic control officers and traffic cones. Second, how would diverting a traffic jam to El Camino Real alleviate anything. El Camino Real is already questionably jammed up at traffic time and the ensuing flood of motor vehicles would only spill the excess onto the various side streets around that road. Spend the $30 million where it's needed, on the school systems or homeless shelters.
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R.I.P. DeKeisha Skaggs! We will all miss you! -Jessica G. P.
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600 Million dollars? Much too expensive and way too late to fix the problem. By the time the road is built, no one will care because the people will be gone.
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Examiner Reader said:
These choke points have been around for over 30 years - and the drivers that dart into the lane and slam on their brakes that have not killed themselves are still endangering the rest of us! Leave the Baltimore area for good - I did 12 years ago and life is so much better since I don't have to deal with the crime or the local corporate societal ladder. I love to hear the companies complain about the lack of talent in the region. The problem is everybody in the Baltimore business district is trying to rape each other so what is left is table scraps for the locals - they don't have a problem hiring out of staters and paying them big bucks but if you are a local they hate the fact that they are reliant on you - especially if you are white and have a moral value system.
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ms jackson said:
All this money spent on highway dividers, anti smoking campaigns, youth violence intiatives, dietary labeling, unwanted pregnancies, anti suicide barriers, etc. could be saved by introducing a microscopic brain implant that would cause extreme pain and forced change of action any time somebody begins to behave in a way that creates any sort of societal problems. Of course, this would mean about 95 percent of huimanity would be constantly groaning in pain and apparently changing their minds!
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oh my gosh that is bad people need to start being more careful
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When someone does something like this, it not only saves lives, it leaves the rest of us with the knowledge that one of us did a great good thing. I'm so grateful for that knowledge. John Beatty is a really good man.
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San Francisco Voter said:
Wow. I knew there were at least a few good people around here.
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Mike Licht said:
>>Re: Study: Traffic costs D.C. $2B, Baltimore $1 billion annually<< Editorial decision to omit hyperlink to the actual study is a gross disservice to readers.
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William Cooke said:
Great race. Thanks Annapolis, Annapolis Police, and AA County Police.
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