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City of Redlands Documents

Some of Redlands' tickets may possibly be ignored.  If your "ticket" does not have the Superior Court's name and address on it, it is a fake, what I call a "Snitch Ticket."  For more details, see the Snitch Ticket section on the Your Ticket page.

The program closed in 2009.
 

Redlands Docs Set # 1
Ticket Counts

Total Violations, Notices Printed [4]

New 9-6-09

Cam #
CIUN-01

































Citrus
&
University



























[3]

Total
Citations
Issued
as %
of Events
Re-
corded
Total
Violations
Recorded/
Notices
Printed
[1] [4]

May08
353
280
































Jun08
286
189
































Jul08
305
176
































Aug08
236
126
































Sep08
246
131
































Oct08
[8]
56
17
































Nov08
43
22
































Dec08
30
17
































2008

































Jan09
25
10
































Feb09
24
8
































Mar09
25
9
































Apr09
30
10
































May09
44
20
































Jun09

































Jul09

































Aug09

































Sep09

































Oct09

































Nov09

































Dec09

































2009

































Jan010

































Feb10

































Mar10

































Apr10

































May10

































Jun10

































Jul10

































Aug10

































Sep10

































Oct10

































Nov10

































Dec10

































2010


































This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official documents obtained under the California Public Records Act.
Source data for table above:  2008-2009 Counts

[  ] indicates a footnote.
[1]  Totals are as provided by the City.
[2]  YTD = Year-to-date total.
[3]  Un-used columns are to allow for later expansion of City's system.
[4]  Any figures in red type (or, if you are looking at this table in black and white, the upper figure when there are two or more figures in a cell) are what RedFlex calls Total Violations, or all incidents recorded by the cameras, and due to time limitations may have been posted here only for selected months or locations.  If there is sufficient public interest, the remaining months will be posted.  The figures in black type are what RedFlex calls Notices Printed, and represent the sum of genuine citations issued (those filed with the court) plus any Nominations mailed (not filed with the court, a.k.a. Snitch Tickets).
[5]  Monthly data has been received but has not yet been posted on this table, due to time constraints.
[6]  The camera enforcement is believed to be on traffic on the first-named street, but the direction of enforcement (north, south, east, west, thru, left, right) is not yet available.
[7]  Includes enforcement of posted "no turn on red" signs.
[8]  The dramatic decrease in the # of violations was due to a lengthening of the yellow - see Set # 2, below.

This table made by highwayrobbery.net, using official reports provided by the City.



Redlands Docs Set # 2
Yellow Too Short - Refund?

The City started its Citrus/University camera in May 2008 with 280 tickets issued that month, then by that September it was down to 131 tickets - which was to be expected. Then someone convinced the court that the 3.0 sec. yellow was too short, and the City was compelled to lengthen it.  On Oct. 1 they re-set the yellow to 3.9 seconds.  They issued 17 tickets that month (an 87% drop from September), and it's not been over 22 since then. That raises the questions: Why didn't the City make refunds to the 800 or so people who got tickets, but shouldn't have, between May and September 2008? And why didn't the Court order the City to make those refunds?

SaferStreetsLA Report on the Effect of the Longer Yellow in Redlands

For what it's worth, Redlands says it will be discontinuing the program. After all, they can't make money issuing only 22 tickets a month.

Why was 3.0 considered to be too short?

In the City's speed survey the City's assistant public works director wrote (at the top of page 3) that for the segment of Citrus west of University, "a speed limit of 35 mph would be indicated."  But then he proceeded to reduce the limit to 25, based upon improper considerations such as the presence of pedestrians, congestion, and nighttime traffic.  That 25 limit - even though it only applied to the west side of the intersection while everything east of there was a 40 limit - was used to justify a 3.0 sec. yellow.  And that too-short yellow generated a lot of undeserved tickets. 
For more info on how a speed survey is supposed to justify such downward speed zoning, see the box, below.

What can you do if you already paid?

Re-open your case!  See FAQ # 26.


Engineering and Traffic (Speed) Surveys:
Justification for Downward Speed Zoning

California statutes say:
(b) An engineering and traffic survey shall include, among other requirements deemed necessary by the department, consideration of all of the following:
(3) Highway, traffic, and roadside conditions not readily apparent to the driver. (Veh. Code Sec. 627, emphasis added.) 

Case law says:
Some speed limits may appear to be unjustified or questionable because:
3.  "Conditions" listed are not hidden hazards, that is, they are readily apparent to a driver;  (P. v. Goulet (1993) 13 Cal.App.4th Supp. 1.)

Administrative regulations say:
Support:  Physical conditions such as width, curvature, grade and surface conditions, or any other condition readily apparent to the driver, in the presence of other factors, would not require special downward speed zoning.  (CalTrans, Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, or "MUTCD," Section 2B.13, page 2B-9.)

For more details about speed surveys, see the "informal discussion" linked in the Speeding Ticket section on the Links page.



Redlands Docs Set # 3
The Contract, Etc.

2008 Contract

This list of contracts and amendments may not be up-to-date - there could be a contract or amendment later than the ones listed above.



Redlands Docs Set # 4
More Coming

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


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