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Taneytown approves RedSpeed contract for school-zone speed cameras on Trevanyan Road; two absent council members opposed
Summary
Council approved a piggyback contract with RedSpeed to install static speed cameras focused on a school-zone section of Trevanyan Road, with vendor installation, maintenance and violation processing; the contract passed despite stated opposition from two absent council members.
The Taneytown Mayor and City Council on June 18 approved a piggyback contract with RedSpeed to provide static speed-camera monitoring in areas allowed by state law, with the primary initial site identified as Trevanyan Road.
Why it matters: The contract delegates installation, maintenance and citation processing to the vendor and is intended to reduce speeding in a school-zone corridor while freeing police officers for other duties. State law limits municipal speed-camera use to school-zone areas; the council said Trevanyan Road is the primary qualifying location under the city’s enabling legislation.
The contract is a multi-year agreement the city is piggybacking off an existing procurement. The mayor noted that “there’s going to be stuff in the contract that does not apply to us” and reminded the council that the town’s enabling legislation covers only speed cameras, not red-light or stop-sign cameras.
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