Big Crackdown on Speeding Coming to Colorado

With over one million vehicles on the roads of Colorado, safety on those roads is an issue. Speeding is a major factor when it comes to "dangerous" driving, and cities are saying they've had enough.

How many times have you seen someone "tearing" down a street, well beyond the speed limit and said, "Why don't they do something about these jerks?' It looks like they're beginning to listen.

Many will say it's a "money grab," but it's about safer and better streets, for everybody.

Automated 'Speed Corridor Monitoring' Coming to Fort Collins, Colorado

In the effort to "promote traffic safety, eliminate roadway fatalities, and reduce injury crashes," the City of Fort Collins will be using more cameras and unmanned monitoring of speeding vehicles.

I'm sure that I'm not the only one who call tell a story about "crazy" speeders in any Colorado city, including Fort Collins. There was a Friday that I was coming into town along Harmony, that was unnerving.

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A car was coming up behind me, weaving in and out of traffic at an excessive speed; he came right up to my back bumper, then jumped into another lane.

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I could feel this person was "trouble" and kept my distance. Two minutes down the road, there that vehicle was - it had hit another driver and crashed. That's what these new monitoring programs are hoping to eliminate, for the sake of safety.

New Speed Cameras Coming to Fort Collins

According the City of Fort Collins, they already have "red light" cameras at six intersections in the city which will be converted to also track drivers exceeding the posted speed limits. They will also use their "speed enforcement" vans and two new transportable units. They are getting serious, for sure.

Where will the new cameras be located? According to a City of Fort Collins press release:

The [speed] corridors were selected based on data collected over the past three years regarding the most common locations for injury/fatal crashes, community concerns regarding dangerous driving behavior and citations involving speeding, careless driving, reckless driving and racing.

A Speed Camera Speeding Ticket is Legit

Many will say you have to be "personally served" a ticket for it be a valid citation, but that's not the case; these are not to be ignored.

'They're Just Looking to Get Revenue'

Knowing that many see traffic citations as an "easy way to get money," Fort Collins' updated initiative, the AVIS initiative (Automated Vehicle Identification Systems) noted that it will use any additional revenue from the citations for:

future traffic safety-related work.

That's not very specific, but it does mean [your] speeding fine won't be going anywhere other than trying to prevent fatalities and injuries on the roads.