Speed cameras on Loop 101 to stay in place
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - The speed-enforcement cameras on Loop 101 through Scottsdale will keep flashing after today.
Scottsdale and the Arizona Department of Public Safety last week extended their agreement to operate the photo enforcement program up to Feb. 29, or until the cameras are affected by carpool-lane construction on Loop 101. The agreement had been scheduled to expire today.
DPS Director Roger Vanderpool requested the extension until Feb. 29 or until construction renders the cameras inoperative, whichever comes first.
Speeders shouldn't get their hopes up, however.
Construction on the camera-equipped portion of Loop 101 isn't scheduled to start until after February, Timothy Tait, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation, said Friday.
SCOTTSDALE, AZ - The speed-enforcement cameras on Loop 101 through Scottsdale will keep flashing after today.
Scottsdale and the Arizona Department of Public Safety last week extended their agreement to operate the photo enforcement program up to Feb. 29, or until the cameras are affected by carpool-lane construction on Loop 101. The agreement had been scheduled to expire today.
DPS Director Roger Vanderpool requested the extension until Feb. 29 or until construction renders the cameras inoperative, whichever comes first.
Speeders shouldn't get their hopes up, however.
Construction on the camera-equipped portion of Loop 101 isn't scheduled to start until after February, Timothy Tait, spokesman for the Arizona Department of Transportation, said Friday.
American Traffic Solutions Inc., the Scottsdale company that operates the cameras under contract with the city, says the cameras can be adjusted to remain operating during construction.
The company could shift its sensors embedded in the roadway when construction crews shift the freeway lanes to create a work zone, ATS spokesman Josh Weiss said Friday.
The company would need permission from ADOT to do the work, but it could move its sensors when the agency temporarily closes the stretch of Loop 101 for construction crews, Weiss said.
ADOT closed parts of Loop 101 three times this fall to allow crews to re-stripe lanes and move equipment into place. The $47.5 million construction project will add high-occupancy-vehicle lanes in the Loop 101 median between Loop 202 on the south and the Pima Road/Princess Drive exit on the north.
The entire project is to be completed in late 2008.
Crews so far have been working on the southern end of the 15-mile project, between Loop 202 and the Via Linda exit. All six photo-enforcement cameras lie farther north, on the stretch running from Shea Boulevard to Scottsdale Road.
Four of the cameras are in the carpool-lane project area.
Scottsdale contracted this year with American Traffic Solutions to run the photo-enforcement program on city streets and Loop 101. The city in turn agreed with DPS that the state agency would be responsible for enforcing and administering the program on Loop 101.
Jane Larson, The Arizona Republic, Dec. 31, 2007 12:00 AM
The company could shift its sensors embedded in the roadway when construction crews shift the freeway lanes to create a work zone, ATS spokesman Josh Weiss said Friday.
The company would need permission from ADOT to do the work, but it could move its sensors when the agency temporarily closes the stretch of Loop 101 for construction crews, Weiss said.
ADOT closed parts of Loop 101 three times this fall to allow crews to re-stripe lanes and move equipment into place. The $47.5 million construction project will add high-occupancy-vehicle lanes in the Loop 101 median between Loop 202 on the south and the Pima Road/Princess Drive exit on the north.
The entire project is to be completed in late 2008.
Crews so far have been working on the southern end of the 15-mile project, between Loop 202 and the Via Linda exit. All six photo-enforcement cameras lie farther north, on the stretch running from Shea Boulevard to Scottsdale Road.
Four of the cameras are in the carpool-lane project area.
Scottsdale contracted this year with American Traffic Solutions to run the photo-enforcement program on city streets and Loop 101. The city in turn agreed with DPS that the state agency would be responsible for enforcing and administering the program on Loop 101.
Jane Larson, The Arizona Republic, Dec. 31, 2007 12:00 AM
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