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Lakewood advisory panel reviews proposed automated traffic camera sites, weighs privacy, staffing and costs
Summary
At a Lakewood community advisory meeting, residents and city staff reviewed a map-based exercise to prioritize sites for automated traffic cameras. Speakers described the data tool Streetvision, reiterated legal limits to school/park/health-care zones, and raised staffing and cost concerns.
At a recent Lakewood advisory meeting, residents and city staff met to mark priority locations for automated traffic cameras and to discuss how telematics data would inform enforcement and patrol.
Peter Johnson, who identified himself during the meeting, and other staff described a grandfathered six-camera automated enforcement system (in operation since 2004) and introduced a map exercise in which participants placed red, yellow and green dots to indicate priority sites. Johnson and staff said the input will be forwarded to the city council for final consideration.
The panel reviewed Streetvision, a telematics program the Washington Traffic Safety Commission has partnered with to provide historical speed and crash data. An…
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