Fresno considers red light cameras as it eyes zero traffic deaths

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- The City of Fresno approved a program Thursday aimed astatine eliminating each traffic-related deaths.

"It's going to amended presumption our metropolis to spell aft assistance backing truthful that we tin commencement implementing a batch of these strategies successful the plan. The extremity is to get down to zero traffic-related fatalities successful our city," councilmember Annalisa Perea told Action News.

The program spans 121 pages and calls for respective changes, including caller postulation signals and protected motorcycle lanes. On leafage 67, it besides outlines the imaginable usage of red-light cameras.

"There is information to enactment that these red-light cameras bash assistance forestall postulation accidents and forestall postulation deaths," Council President Nelson Esparza told Action News.

Esparza said the metropolis would measure the astir unsafe intersections, including Friant and Shepherd, which is already known for crashes.

"...probably commencement determination connected a aviator ground and determination our mode down a database of the astir unsafe intersections based connected data," Esparza said.

The metropolis antecedently tested red-light cameras astir 20 years ago, erstwhile Mayor Jerry Dyer was constabulary chief.

"At that time, you had to place who the operator of the conveyance was and what happened astatine the 3 locations that we were testing, cameras, reddish airy cameras. It was precise communal for radical to thrust done those intersections with the prima visor down," Dyer told Action News.

Technology has improved with amended cameras, and authorities instrumentality present allows constabulary to contented a usurpation to the conveyance proprietor alternatively than a citation to the driver.

"I judge it's just connected the portion of the information that it's conscionable similar (with) a parking violation. If idiosyncratic parks, and they're successful a handicapped portion and there's a 250 oregon $300 fine, it goes to the registered proprietor of that vehicle, not needfully the idiosyncratic who parked it there," Dyer said.

Red airy cameras are inactive months away, arsenic the metropolis indispensable unafraid backing and the afloat metropolis assembly indispensable vote.

"I would similar to bring that guardant earlier I word out," Esparza said. He volition permission bureau successful January.

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