Title
Comprehensive Enforcement of Running Red Lights (NB)
Explanation
On January 10, 2005 the City Commission referred the issue of running red lights to the Public Safety Committee for a review of data and report back. The Public Safety Committee discussed this referral and heard from Gainesville Police Department (GPD) staff. The Committee determined that the GPD Traffic Safety Team provides consistent enforcement of red lights and of other priority traffic concerns, and requested that staff include that information to the City Commission in the report out as outlined below.
A selective enforcement detail is triggered by a request from any citizen, a request from a Neighborhood Crime Watch or any law enforcement officer. As a general rule, the Team will work an intersection based upon observations from traffic officers who determine that there are several drivers violating a traffic control device at any given intersection. A red light detail will normally run for three days and then a determination is made if additional time is needed.
The Traffic Safety Team has concentrated their selective enforcement details at numerous intersections throughout the city but primarily include: SW Archer Road and 34 Street, SW Williston Road and 34 Street, SW Archer Road and 16 Avenue, W. University Avenue and 34 Street, Newberry Road and 55 Street and Newberry Road and 62 Street, NW 13 Street at 7 Avenue and NW 16 Avenue, NW 13 Street and 53 Avenue, NW 34 Street and 39 Avenue, N. Main Street at 8 Avenue and NW 16 Avenue and Waldo Road at NE 39 Avenue. Red light citations have been issued at various other intersections in the city limits.
There have been numerous meetings through the Public Safety Committee, with local Representatives and with members of the House and Senate in an effort to create new laws to allow red light cameras in the State of Florida. This proposal does not appear to have adequate support to become law, although still remains a leg...
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