Work Zone Speed Cameras

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Ohio lawmakers voted in 2007 to restrict cities from using speed cameras and profiting from red light cameras. Two years later, they're being asked by a state agency to authorize speed cameras for use on state roads. Officials from the Ohio Department of Public Safety appeared before an Ohio House subcommittee Thursday requesting authority to install cameras in work zones.

Department spokeswoman Lindsay Komlanc says the plan is in the beginning stages. No proposals have been firmed up on how many cameras to buy, what the fines would be for violators or how locations would be chosen.

Komlanc says they are intended for use only in work zones. "The goal is to increase safety for the motoring public and construction workers," Komlac noted. The State Department of Transportation says 13 people died in 4,830 accidents in construction zones on Ohio Roads in 2008. Studies in Illinois report average speeds dropped by nearly 8 miles per hour where cameras were in use.

State safety officials are hoping to have approval by this summer and have cameras in place by the summer of 2010.