The Michigan Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is hearing testimony this week on legislation that would allow for the use of safety cameras to monitor the speeds of vehicles driving through road construction zones.
Michigan Department of Transportation Chief Engineer Gregg Brunner joined this week’s episode of the Talking Michigan Transportation podcast to show his support for the legislation. He explained how the cameras work.
“What it would do is capture those speeds and the license plate itself and then compile them into a database,” Brunner said. “With that, they were able to not only show statistics of not only the number of speeders through the work zone on any given day or timeframe, but then they would utilize that data back at the office to potentially write tickets to those drivers speeding through the work zones.”
A test of the cameras was successfully executed in Grand Rapids. Drivers could retroactively get citations for speeding in work zones.
