Kokua Line: What speed limit are cameras enforcing?

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE @STARADVERTISER.COM The DOT’s studies recovered that the mean fig of vehicles going 5 mph implicit the velocity bounds successful 1 week is 72, 000, portion the mean fig of vehicles going 11 mph implicit the bounds successful 1 week is 18, 000.

GEORGE F. LEE / GLEE @STARADVERTISER.COM The DOT’s studies recovered that the mean fig of vehicles going 5 mph implicit the velocity bounds successful 1 week is 72, 000, portion the mean fig of vehicles going 11 mph implicit the bounds successful 1 week is 18, 000.

Question : Regarding the red-light cameras that besides drawback speeders, what is the threshold implicit the velocity bounds astatine which a informing volition beryllium issued ? Is it 5 mph ? 11 mph ? Or immoderate different fig ? There has been conflicting accusation retired there.

Answer : 11 mph, though that doesn’t mean it’s harmless to velocity astatine all, a authorities Department of Transportation spokesperson emphasized. State instrumentality authorizes enforcement astatine 5 mph implicit the velocity bounds astatine the 10 Hono ­lulu intersections with camera systems, and the DOT antecedently announced that warnings would beryllium issued astatine that level. It switched gears aft its baseline studies recovered truthful galore speeders that enforcement astatine 5 mph threatened to swamp the Judiciary, which administers postulation tickets.

“While the word ‘threshold’ continues to beryllium utilized erstwhile speaking astir speeding, we privation to inquire each drivers to reframe the mode they deliberation astir speeding, ” DOT spokesperson Shelly Kunishige said successful an email. “Speed limits are acceptable based connected the plan characteristics of roads including surrounding onshore use. The existent information camera strategy sites are successful areas with posted speeds that tally betwixt 25 to 35 mph. Under the instrumentality the allowable variance astatine the velocity information camera locations is 5 mph implicit the posted velocity limit. As we were gathering archetypal information we decided to nonstop warnings to the registered owners of vehicles going 11 mph implicit the posted velocity limit. This does not mean that going 5 to 10 mph implicit the posted velocity limits is OK, conscionable that they volition not person warnings done our system.”

The informing play began March 1, though informing letters for infractions from that day guardant did not statesman printing until March 21, she said. The informing play is expected to tally done October, extended from the end-of-April day primitively announced. Tickets won’t beryllium issued until aft the informing play ends, which volition beryllium publicized.

The informing level is expected to stay accordant for the duration of the informing period, notifying by message the owners of vehicles recorded going 11 mph oregon much implicit the posted velocity bounds astatine intersections with the information cameras, Kuni ­shige said.

The DOT’s studies recovered that the mean fig of vehicles going 5 mph implicit the velocity bounds successful 1 week is 72, 000, portion the mean fig of vehicles going 11 mph implicit the bounds successful 1 week is 18, 000.

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“We are moving with our partners to acceptable manageable programme parameters that volition conscionable the extremity of reducing speeding connected Hawaii roads, ” Kunishige said.

Automated velocity enforcement occurs astatine the aforesaid Honolulu intersections that contented camera-generated tickets (not warnings ) for red-light moving : Vineyard Boulevard and Palama Street, Vineyard Boulevard and Liliha Street, Vineyard Boulevard and Nuuanu Avenue, Pali Highway and Vineyard Boulevard, Pali Highway and North School Street, Likelike Highway and North School Street, Ward Avenue and South King Street, Kapiolani Boulevard and Kamakee Street, South Beretania Street and Piikoi Street, and McCully Street and Algaroba Street.

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