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Two speed cameras go live on East Central; city plans to add six others
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Travelers heading down Central at San Pedro, beware: new speed cameras are now up and running.
On Oct. 6, the city put up the cameras it hopes will deter speeding down East Central in both directions.
In 2022, the city installed automated speed enforcement cameras to address "widespread, dangerous speeding on city streets," Department of Municipal Development spokesperson Dan Mayfield said. This year, the city contracted with a new vendor, Elovate, to add eight new cameras, including the two off Central and San Pedro.
The other six cameras will be placed at Lead near Byrn Mawr; southbound and northbound Coors NW, north of St. Joseph; southbound Eubank NE, south of Montgomery; Tramway NE, south of Lomas; and Carlisle NE, near Delamar, where cyclist Kayla VanLandingham, 19, was fatally struck by a car in July.
The city has not announced when it will install those cameras, he said.
There are now 22 speed cameras in the city, which have been placed in "critical arteries" chosen "using a mix of crash data, the High Fatality and Injury Network maps, and local input," Mayfield said. The maps show where crashes occur on the most dangerous streets and intersections, according to the Mid-Region Council of Governments website.
Prior to Central and San Pedro, Mayfield said, the most recent cameras were installed on southbound Coors near Ellison NW, westbound Paseo del Norte NE at Louisiana and northbound Coors NW between Montaño and Paseo in December 2023.
Since the speed camera program began, 380,000 citations have been issued, he said.
"ASE cameras are catching on nationwide as they can dramatically slow down traffic all day, every day," DMD Director Jennifer Turner said in a statement. "Our program has shown that speed cameras do work in Albuquerque and that drivers are slowing down. Slower speeds mean safer driving."
