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After months of warnings and now citations, data confirms speed cameras are making drivers in San Francisco slow down.
ABC7 joined Viktoriya Wise SFMTA’s director of streets at one of the locations they have been closely analyzing for effectiveness. The city has 56 cameras at 33 locations. All of them are active and citing drivers who drive 11 miles an hour above the speed limit.
„Overall, our data shows that there is a 72% reduction, so people are changing their behavior“, said Wise.
SFMTA is reporting in the months of June, July and August, they sent out a combined 260,142 warnings and citations to drivers.
The agency began to cite drivers in August, and confirmed they gave more than 16,555 citations that month or over 500 citations a day.
„It takes a while to get used to. I know one of my friends got a warning, so he didn’t get a ticket it was just a warning and now he knows better than to speed around here“, said Maria Famy, San Francisco resident.
