AB-645 would authorize six California cities to set up and enforce speed cameras to issue automatic tickets for drivers going at least 11 mph over the speed limit.
San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose - to set up speed cameras to issue automatic tickets for drivers going at least 11 mph over the speed limit.
The cameras would be prioritized in areas around schools, high-injury intersections, and known street racing corridors, to reduce speeding and traffic fatalities. Civil penalties would be $50, $100, $200 or $500 for exceeding the speed limit by 11 mph, 16 mph, 26 mph and over 100 mph. The pilot program would last five years and then be assessed. If the program is successful in the pilot cities, it could be expanded throughoutRevenue from speeding tickets will be used toward engineering, safer streets, and infrastructure.
"Every single one of those lives is a person, a person that should have made it home from their commute and never did. We all know one of them or of one them. This bill passed the California Assembly with bipartisan support because this cannot continue," she said.
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