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City of Mesa, Arizona, Documents
(and Other Arizona Information)

Mesa, pop. 450,000, is east of Phoenix.
Mesa has both red light cameras and speed camera vans.

For a book on how to fight speed camera tickets, see the Speeding Ticket section on the Links page.

Mesa Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Citations issued & violations recorded (some months), for red light cameras (1st 18 columns); and speed camera citations issued (last column)

New 8-3-04, updated 1-22-05

The significance of this table is explained in the left-turn section of Defect # 2 on the Home page

The signal timing at the left turns below was increased (3.0 up to 4.0) in November 2000. See the footnotes [ ], and an Arizona Tribune article, for details.

	CC Sou- th- ern SBD	Mesa Sou- th- ern NBD	Mesa Bro- ad- way	Sta- pley Sou- th- ern EBD	Sta- pley Bro- ad- way NBD	Sta- pley Main WBD	CC Univ SBD	CC Univ Left	Alma Sou- th- ern EBD	Alma Sou- thern Left	Dob- son Sou- thern Left	Sou- thern Dob- son EBD	Univ Mesa WBD	Dob- son Bro- adway Left	Sou- thern CC Left	Power Main Left	Lind- say Univ NBD	Total RLC [1]	Total Speed Cam- era
Jan00	77	45	93	38	66	84							0					403	1282
Feb00	93	14	64	25	52	55	10						68					381	1318
Mar00	79	39	65	42	64	47	129	0	9	161	0	15	94	9		309 28	10	791	2109
Apr00	62	82	73	37	67	48	145	621	19	779	406	75	75	278	213	2457 368	37	3385	1890
May00	49	68	55	19	71	60	135	506	10	1025	674	40	72	315	386	2127 395	32	3912	1742
Jun00	67	54	63	23	34	73	84	376	6	589	515	46	74	275	231	1429 381	31	2922	1311
Jul00	57	52	54	24	50	57	96	429	3	481	788	67	66	272	294	1519 435	23	3248	1225
Aug00 [5]	50	64	62	23	44	64	95	1177 553	10	1705 658	2304 865	51	73	1036 292	1134 283	1563 388	19	3594	1257
Sep00 [5]	42	73	49	24	41	59	92	1009 479	14	1178 448	2355 1014	37	43	953 241	1184 386	1087 296	28	3366	1370
Oct00 [5]	36	55	30	14	32	41	93	1013 471	13	1595 480	2295 752	38	68	833 253	996 287	1561 402	23	3088	1356
Nov00 [2] [5]	38	81	45	20	28	63	71	477 185	15	1010 335	1194 449	34	58	399 92	674 180	1529 399	19	2112	1257
Dec00 [5]	40	44	39	32	65	69	89	153 55	15	497 188	654 262	53	80	116 38	445 103	326 70	26	1268	1502
Jan01 [5]	29	36	36	23	35	82	91	181 67	18	400 119	437 167	33	68	111 41	506 125	339 60	22	1052	1330
Feb01 [5]	28	37	59	23	41	60	99	200 83	13	373 120	538 188	38	64	114 38	613 137	434 82	26	1136	1139
Mar01	35	61	42	33	66	67	122	142	24	94	183	43	85	34	213	376 68	20	1332	1808
Apr01	94	93	113	50	106	141	195	118	28	182	270	84	128	71	221	333 68	26	1988	1390
May01	111	144	69	30	113	113	193	148	11	88	240	77	140	51	231	290 56	34	1849	1425
Jun01 [3]	75	155	74	48	88	135	133	145	9	254	186	74	108	41	177	265 68	28	1798	1709
Jul01	81	114	48	12	77	111	121	130	-	135	122	55	126	0	122	256 47	24	1325	1233
Aug01	111	127	51	0	97	86	143	164	0	157	316	0	119	0	139	260 36	0	1546	1191
Sep01	139	114	47	0	130	170	145	177	0	87	222	0	119	0	165	356 112	0	1627	969
Oct01	145	101	32	0	77	135	201	170	0	105	250	0	106	0	197	234 47	0	1566	1183
Nov01	123	100	23	0	75	138	215	156	0	133	64	0	183	0	86	302 67	0	1363	768
Dec01	73	89	37	0	109	164	131	118	0	82	232	0	126	0	105	732 163	0	1429	1299
Jan02	63	82	28	0	101	129	153	88	0	124	228	0	137	0	112	1068 219	0	1464	1063
Feb02	84	98	49	0	179	98	128	92	0	116	267	0	111	0	134	841 204	0	1560	1085
Mar02	82	72	22	0	94	150	133	73	0	96	125	0	71	0	146	791 188	0	1252	784
Apr02	75	87	28	0	91	142	83	75	0	48	130	0	71	0	101	424 65	0	996	949
May02	59	111	38	0	115	160	133	67	-	24	122	-	80	0	90	382 73	0	1072	1151
Jun02	75	97	42	0	125	125	86	44	0	104	160	0	93	0	112	331 47	0	1110	1018
Jul02	67	92	29	0	98	105	91	41	-	49	97	0	87	17	132	313 35	0	940	1044
Aug02	15	114	48	0	146	151	124	80	0	19	271	0	117	40	93	262 34	0	1252	1139
Sep02	36	115	54	0	138	157	104	106	0	25	387	0	97	39	51	318 97	0	1406	1667
Oct02	32	191	35	0	153	170	87	97	0	36	455	0	142	62	161	448 167	0	1788	1279
Nov02	25	116	44	-	164	144	127	60	-	37	255	-	85	58	148	555 188	-	1451	1422
Dec02	44	145	47	0	151	167	106	37	0	46	277	0	88	47	98	745 201	0	1454	1704
Jan03	32	131	45	0	102	156	120	90	0	38	273	0	108	57	109	790 220	0	1481	973
Feb03	31	106	50	0	138	131	80	68	0	32	280	0	78	49	152	739 200	0	1395	919
Mar03	31	87	44	0	126	103	88	92	0	39	248	0	77	35	112	912 280	0	1362	1092
Apr03	55	99	56	0	122	150	144	81	0	20	193	0	75	39	109	494 129	0	1272	1184
May03	18	86	10	-	103	84	122	40	-	40	156	-	53	32	40	337 68	-	852	894
Jun03	21	124	-	2	89	80	124	34	-	63	167	-	73	36	11	275 66	-	890
Jul03	24	88	0	5	155	107	15	63	0	26	11	0	53	23	59	89 2	0	631	832
Aug03	15	114	48	0	146	151	124	80	0	19	271	0	117	40	93	262 34	0	1252	908
Sep03	32	76	0	5	109	97	113	131	0	39	285	0	87	49	36	83 14	0	1073	1004
Oct03	45	112	-	16	153	106	126	148	-	37	258	-	96	58	17	153 45	-	1117
Nov03	44	102	0	9	136	92	130	115	-	49	201	-	74	39	34	190 47	-	1072	1335
Dec03	59	135	0	13	137	145	178	46	0	73	352	0	98	79	160	221 47	0	1522	1735
Jan04	65	142	12	0	130	150	142	71	0	50	286	0	88	51	105	272 56	0	1348	1051
Feb04	62	108	0	11	164	123	153	107	0	69	371	0	81	60	120	586 145	0	1574	****
Mar04	97	103	0	11	139	124	130	110	0	58	289	0	65	43	149	757 175	0	1493	1115
Apr04	69	118	0	6	139	129	105	47	0	49	218	0	71	60	123	704 171	0	1305	1114
May04	81	75	0	9	135	104	114	57	0	86	200	0	23	51	116	506 162	0	1213	1054
Jun04	47	110	0	15	210	145	74	131 60	0	218 64	431 178	0	78	181 56	446 118	582 176	0	1331	1135
Jul04	42	87	-	4	280	105	53	103 27	-	169 39	339 99	-	61	117 29	410 105	379 63	-	994
Aug04	63	124	-	18	122	86	101	212 80	-	213 55	730 190	-	43	196 57	652 77	506 133	-	1149
Sep04
Oct04
Nov04
Dec04

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official monthly tabulations of citations actually issued. Except for the rightmost column, all counts are of red light camera citations.
[1] The monthly totals are as provided by the City, except for Jun03, Oct03, Jul04, and Aug04 which were calculated by highwayrobbery.net.
[2] On Nov. 14, 2000, the City increased the length of the yellows at the left turns above, from three seconds, to four.
[3] Effective June 1, 2001, the number of available cameras was reduced from 17 to 12, with the cameras to be rotated among the 17 existing housings.
[4] Data requested but not yet received.
[5] Figures in red type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure of the two in the cell) are "raw" violations recorded by the cameras. They have been posted only for selected months, due to time limitations. If there is sufficient public interest, additional months will be posted. The figures in black type are citations issued.

Mesa Docs Set # 2

Mesa's Contract with the Vendor

As of July 2004 the contract documents consisted of a contract and a July 2001 amendment. Here are some major provisions.

Vendor, and term: The vendor was Lockheed Martin IMS, now ACS. The contract was signed in Nov. 1999 and runs until April 30, 2005.
Fees: Until June 1, 2001, the vendor received $48.50 each for the first 20,000 paid citations (combined red light camera and speed camera) per year (calendar year or contract year?), $39 for the next 20,000, and $21 for those above 40,000.
Beginning June 1, 2001 the two types of cameras have separate compensation schedules. The vendor receives $73 each for the first 900 red light camera tickets paid each month, $65 for the next 300, and $48.50 for those above 1200. For speed camera tickets, the vendor receives $51 for each one paid.
Camera locations: The June 1, 2001 contract amendment reduced the number of red light camera mechanisms from 17 to 12 [although it appears, from the table above, that they still have 13 cameras], with the cameras to be rotated among the 17 existing housings.

Mesa Docs Set # 3
The Signs

There's five or six signs in this photo. Which one is illegal?

Mesa Docs Set # 4
Location of Limit Line

If you have a red light camera ticket from any Arizona city, look at the extended commentary below the three Aug. 17, 2006 Mesa crash photos on this page.

Mesa Docs Set # 5
More Coming

There may be some more Mesa information posted in the next few weeks. Mark your calendar to remind you to come back here and look!

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