Excerpts from the article:
“Statistics from a traffic study conducted by a company that may partner with the city in placing school zone speed cameras in marked school zones were presented Monday night to the Tusculum Board of Mayor and Commissioners.”
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“Figures for Doak Elementary School show that between 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. over the five days, 967 vehicles were recorded on camera on Sam Doak Drive. Of that total, 214, or more than 22%, exceeded the 15-mile-an-hour school zone speed limit by at least 11 miles per hour.
Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m., the vehicle total for the five days was 676, with 259 vehicles, or more than 38%, exceeding the speed limit by at least 11 mph.
The study also included the 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. time frame on the five weekdays, which showed a total of 3,476 vehicles, 338 of which were speeding, a figure of nearly 10%. The regular speed limit on Sam Doak Drive is 25 mph.
The total five-day total vehicle count in the area of Doak Elementary School was 5,119, with 811 speeding violations recorded.
A total of 29,928 vehicles were recorded over the same five-weekday time frame on East Andrew Johnson Highway in the area of Chuckey-Doak Middle School, with a total of 3,956 speeding violations.”
So 3,956 citations x $50 = $197,800 in revenue in 1 week. Sure its about the safety of our kids!
So the town administrators can’t afford to hire an extra officer to patrol the school zones and want to give 1/2 of the money collected to an outside company when they could be collecting all of it if an officer actually issued the citations?
Full Article may be available at: https://www.greenevillesun.com/news/local_news/tusculum-school-speed-zone-survey-shows-many-offenders/article_87b67d98-3e5b-11ed-988e-1fd8d0e3363c.html