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Board authorizes red-light camera ordinance, exempts three intersections for expedited review
Summary
Supervisors adopted ordinance R25-24 to allow traffic signal violation monitoring; the board amended the ordinance to explicitly permit planned camera systems at three local intersections (Route 17 & Victory, Route 134 & Victory, Fort Eustis Blvd & Route 17) to proceed pending required engineering studies and VDOT coordination.
York County’s Board of Supervisors on Sept. 16 adopted an ordinance (R25-24R) authorizing traffic-signal violation monitoring systems (red-light cameras) and amended the ordinance to single out three intersections for near-term study and implementation if engineering and vendor studies support them.
County attorney staff explained the Code of Virginia allows localities to enact monitoring systems and described the implementation steps required. Sheriff Montgomery outlined crash data and preliminary studies for the intersection of George Washington Memorial Highway (Route 17) and Victory Boulevard, saying the intersection had 169 crashes since Jan. 1, 2024, and that a one-day vendor test recorded 119 violations at that location.
Sheriff Montgomery…
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