News released today:

DPS Launches Statewide Photo-Radar

Program starts immediately, and will target high-crash roads and construction zones.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety is deploying a fleet of vans to do photo radar on highways around the state. DPS Director Roger Vanderpool (pictured below) says Arizona is the first state to run photo radar at the state level.

The vans will be stationed alongside roads where speed enforcement is needed, especially where speeding is a factor in frequent crashes. The vans will not take DPS officers away from patrol duties; rather, the vans will be staffed by people from Redflex Traffic Systems, which developed the technology and will own the vans and the equipment. DPS will lease the vans from Redflex. Vanderpool says it's an additional tool to help DPS do its job, which is to enforce traffic laws, and to get drivers to slow down and pay more attention to the road. He emphasized it will still take officers on patrol to keep an eye out for impaired drivers and criminals, but the photo-radar vans can at least encourage drivers to obey the speed limit.

The vans are equipped with cameras both front and rear, to capture a photo of the driver and the car's license plate. Vanderpool emphasizes that the location of the vans will not be publicized. However, under state law, there must be signs placed at least 300 feet in advance of the photo radar vans to give drivers a chance to react to their presence.

Tickets will be issued for drivers exceeding the speed limit by at least 10 mph, but Vanderpool says warnings can be issued for drivers who are speeding by less than 10 mph.

 

These vans have been sitting on Rio salado between mclintock and rural/scottsdale for the past few weeks. Its really obnoxious because the speed limit is 40 (i think), but people slow down to 5-7 mph UNDER the speed limit.

 

i hope they don't hit the 60...

 

good looking out. typical bullshit in modern society. what they should do is royally F people who cause & get into accidents, and leave the rest of us alone. I'm tired of the fact that 95% of us in the world have to suffer because of the 5% idiots (probably a bit higher than 5% in AZ)

it all comes down to revenue.

 

get the DUI busts up, have check stops to check for insurance, and impound those who either don't comply, or don't have it. i mainly worry about uninsurred morons cause 44 % of people on the road today don't have insurance. thats sickening. start busting those idiots and they might just start respecting thier cars and others.

 

When the notice comes in the mail and they give you the web link to view your pic, remember not to log in. You never got the notice, so how could you log on?....

 

Time to fire up those V1's on high.

Also, the rio salado van has now been replaced with a 101-type camera

 

I've heard the cameras are pretty bogus. Like...if you're looking away from the camera when it takes the picture, they can't use it b/c they have to have a clear shot of the drivers face. And the driver has to match the registered owner of the vehicle. Pretty bogus that so many people can get away with speeding because the pictures don't show their face... or the owner of the vehicle isn't in the vehicle at the time...

 

Anyone ever heard of (or used) this product?

http://www.photoblocker.com/

Not to encourage anyone to speed or anything but it might be nice to have

 

Nah, the Mythbusters tried that stuff along with a few other products. None of them worked well enough to completely obscure the camera.