The city plans to install nine red light cameras throughout Austin this semester.
Officials expect the cameras to go online on May 1, said Gene Acuña, a city spokesman. The city's Public Works Department narrowed down a list of 20 intersections identified as having the most collisions in 2006 and 2007 caused by someone running a red light, Acuña said. He said city engineers chose the nine locations by conducting studies on collision frequency, traffic signal visibility and timing of signal changes.
The city may install more cameras if the program proves successful, Acuña said.
"The goal is to public safety at these intersections, to have drivers focus on approaching an intersection at any time, whether there is a red light camera there or not," he said. "When the yellow light is on, it's time to slow down and stop."
The cameras will be located at:
• Southbound I-35 service road at Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
• Northbound I-35 service road at 11th Street
• Southbound I-35 service road at 15th Street
• Riverside Drive at Pleasant Valley Road
• West frontage of Lamar Boulevard at Ben White Boulevard
• Both the Northbound and Southbound MoPac Expressway at Howard Lane/Wells Branch Parkway
• East frontage of Lamar Boulevard at south frontage of Ben White Boulevard
• MoPac southbound service road at eastbound U.S. Highway 290
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