Several highly trafficked intersections in San Francisco will be getting cameras that can automatically detect and ticket drivers who run red lights.

Once they’re installed, by 2025, the eight red-light cameras will join the ones that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency already operates at 13 locations throughout the city. The cameras take snapshots of front license plates and drivers’ faces when their vehicles cross intersections after the lights turn red, and citations are mailed to violators.

State lawmakers are hoping to get a bill through that will allow some California cities to install speed cameras in traffic zones deemed dangerous.

Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale are the Southern California cities that would potentially adopt the cameras within a pilot program.

Jeff Nguyen reports from Studio City, one of six California locations partaking in a pilot program to help reduce speeds across the state. The recently installed speed cameras were put up in school zones, areas with a history of racing or high injury numbers.

A new program to slow drivers down and curb street racing using speed cameras could soon go into effect in three Southern California cities. The devices would photograph the license plates of drivers going 11 miles per hour or more over the speed limit in any given area.  

While speed cameras are currently illegal in the state, a proposed bill could change all that. If it becomes law, a pilot program using speed cameras would kick off in Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach in January.  

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Speed cameras could soon be installed in several Southern California cities including Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale.

Under AB 645, speed cameras would be installed in school zones and in areas with a history of speed racing. State and city leaders spoke about proposed bill during a press conference on Tuesday.

Kudos to Assemblywoman Laura Friedman for authoring and promoting Assembly Bill 645, which would fund a pilot program to install speed cameras in selected cities, including Glendale (“Speed camera bill is one step closer to becoming law,” June 15).

Speeding and reckless driving are serious problems in Glendale. Glendale is consistently ranked in the bottom 20 of the “Allstate America’s Best Drivers,” just two spots ahead of Los Angeles.

Starting next year, motorists in the Bay Area's three largest cities may not need to see a police officer to end up with a speeding ticket.

Drivers in three Bay Area cities may soon receive automated tickets from speed cameras, if a bill co-sponsored by Mayor London Breed is approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The bill, AB645, written by Assembly Member Laura Friedman, D-Glendale, would launch a five-year pilot program for the automated speed enforcement systems in six California cities, including San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose. The other cities are Los Angeles, Glendale and Long Beach.

A proposed five-year pilot program that calls for using traffic cameras to issue automatic tickets to speeding drivers traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the limit in California is close to approval in the state’s Legislature.

Assembly Bill 645 passed a second Senate hearing in the Judiciary Committee July 11 after clearing the Senate’s Transportation Committee June 27. The State Assembly approved the bill on May 31.