SafeLight Lafayette SafeSpeed Lafayette A Bottom Up Approach

Background Active Consideration Since 1998 Electronic Enforcement Study Funded With Safety Funds /La DOTD ($80,000) Dr Sun, ULL, was Principal Author (2004 to 2006) Inventoried Existing &Traveled (Do not Reinvent) North Carolina (8 Cities) Arizona (8 Cites, 2 Vendors) Ordinances Red Light Running / Speeding (2006) Proceeded with Request for Proposals 4 Vendors, Selected RedFlex / Negotiated Contract (408 pages) Implementation Commenced 6+ months

Es Locations Selected From an Engineering Perspective Did not recognize political boundaries

New Crash Data to Determine current Locations New Council Engaged in this issue! City Police Crash Database 2005-2007 24,551 crash records 7,244 at intersections 2,262 right angle crashes Normalized frequency and rate

SafeLight SafeSpeed Intersection

First Violation

Red For 27.75 Seconds

Red for 44 Seconds

First Crash Red for 5.77 Sec.

Warning Period One Location 56 Violation in 20 Days Seconds into Red 35.00 30.00 Seconds Afte Red 25.00 20.00 15.00 10.00 5.00 0.00 Series1 1 6 11 16 21 26 31 36 41 46 51 56 Sequence Number

SafeSpeed Mobile Vans

Screen View of Incident Data Speed Van Images

Violation Notice Document

Engineering Question: Where should they Go and who decides? City Police Crash Database 2000-2003 31,667 crash records 14,021 at intersections 2,042 right angle crashes Normalized frequency and rate

3 Options or Coupons Admit and pay the fine Nominate a driver Schedule an Adjudication Hearing

Table of Fines

Speeder Hits the Brakes #1

Speeder Hits the Brakes #2

Statistics 4,262 SafeLight notices since Jan 2008 102,912 SafeSpeed notices since Oct 2007 107,194 Notices since Oct 2007 (2,061/week) 408 Camera weeks in 2008 262 notices printed per camera week Total Police Dept violations before SafeSpeed SafeLight = 3,973 for 2007 (76 per week, all locations)

Statistics Number of SafeLight Notices Printed as of 4 PM 1-21-09 Bertrand / Dulles College / Johnston Johnston / Woodvale Gloria Switch / I 49 Frontage SafeLight Moss / Pont Des Mouton Moss / Simcoe Mudd / Moss Pinhook / Simcoe University / I 10 Ramp University / Simcoe January 19 45 5 37 106 February 45 20 49 10 0 16 16 8 164 March 168 19 54 66 1 35 17 31 0 177 568 April 66 14 40 51 22 38 13 15 56 89 404 May 59 11 47 38 30 55 11 19 70 87 427 June 49 10 32 38 42 33 14 7 56 71 352 July 43 22 27 47 56 35 11 19 46 58 364 August 66 26 43 30 * * * 17 46 73 301 September 92 63 25 36 * * * 12 63 92 383 October 77 54 71 51 * * * 16 55 137 461 November 69 60 34 32 * * * 22 70 115 402 December 24 53 36 47 * * * 14 47 109 330 TOTAL 758 371 503 446 151 196 87 225 509 1016 4262 * = removed TOTAL

Statistics Number of SafeSpeed Notices Printed as of 4 PM 1-21-09 Bertrand / Dulles College / Johnston Johnston / Woodvale Gloria Switch / I 49 Frontage Moss / Pont Des Mouton Moss / Simcoe SafeSpeed Mudd / Moss Pinhook / Simcoe University / I 10 Ramp Speed Van 1 University / Simcoe Speed Van 2 October 2007 1098 1513 2611 November 1062 1134 2196 December (fixed speed began Dec 7) 2 11 24 1389 988 511 2925 January 0 15 17 1883 759 1072 3746 February 0 0 0 829 0 10 1557 747 269 517 3929 March 0 2 0 5282 0 3 4 1546 0 12134 492 449 19912 April 307 1 0 2684 11 1 9 1057 1275 4624 202 541 10712 May 231 2 7 2276 16 35 9 868 1107 4224 298 543 9616 June 240 1 9 1432 39 44 4 835 876 3560 88 296 7424 July 215 2 11 2050 44 55 9 813 906 3549 163 322 8139 August 219 0 6 1460 * * * 592 509 2313 91 49 5239 September 151 1 4 1344 * * * 625 463 2506 219 62 5375 October 2008 177 3 14 1733 * * * 652 635 3280 356 117 6967 November 2008 234 1 9 1880 * * * 681 518 3029 540 526 7418 December 2008 151 1 11 1809 * * * 733 532 2947 185 334 6703 TOTAL 1925 16 97 22779 110 138 86 13231 6821 42913 6810 7986 102912 * = removed TOTAL

Public / Media Relations - Challenges Approval

Arizona: Photo Ticket Server Dishes Out Racial Slurs Video catches officer of the Arizona court system dishing out a racial slur to the recipient of a speed camera ticket. A process server hired by an Australian photo radar vendor was caught dishing out racial slurs as he delivered a speed camera ticket to an American family of Mexican descent in Queen Creek, Arizona. A.J. Arnette, a private contractor with AAA Landlord Services working on behalf of Redflex and the Arizona courts, drove to the home of a motorist accused of driving 7 MPH over the speed limit to provide formal service of the violation notice. "You're a [expletive] wetback, go back to Mexico!" Arnette yelled as he tossed the citation notice onto the ground and drove away.

Arizona Speed Camera Van Pulled Over for DUI Speed camera van busted for DUI in Scottsdale, Arizona. A speed camera van driver in Scottsdale, Arizona was arrested Saturday at 6:30pm, accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). A retired police officer spotted Roderick Ruffin, 53, driving erratically on Scottsdale Road and dialed 911. Ruffin had been behind the wheel of an official van registered to the Australian photo radar contractor Redflex Traffic Systems and was headed toward Tempe about to begin issuing automated speeding tickets to other motorists on that city's behalf. "He's weaving all over the place," the concerned motorist explained to the 911 operator. "He's hit the curb twice. He's almost hit other vehicles in the number one lane." Before Ruffin could reach his destination, however, Scottsdale Police intercepted the photo enforcement van. "When the officer contacted the driver, he could smell alcohol on the driver's breath," Scottsdale Police said in a prepared statement. "The officer asked the driver to perform the standard field sobriety tests, the results of which indicated impairment." Ruffin was booked after police testing showed his blood alcohol content (BAC) appeared to exceed 0.15, well beyond the legal limit. Redflex terminated Ruffin's employment upon learning of what the company called an apparent "reckless lapse of judgment." "The company deeply regrets and apologizes to the community for the incident, and expresses its gratitude to the Scottsdale Police for making the arrest and removing the offending driver from the road," Redflex said in a statement.

Tony Tramel - CAUGHT ON TAPE - Listen Here A Lafayette, Louisiana city official was caught on tape last week laughing at motorists behind closed doors with an independent hearing officer and a representative from a speed camera vendor. The conversation followed an adjudicatory hearing where Mark and Phil Abshire successfully beat a pair of photo radar tickets by showing the city cited the wrong ordinance on the citations issued. Lafayette City Traffic and Transportation Director Tony Tramel joined independent adjudicator Fred Davis and an unidentified employee, likely of Redflex, in discussing the twins' case. - thenewspaper.com

Class Action Lawsuit - Joey Durel Sued Over Redflex

F e d e r a l L a w s u it

Public Opinion Poll 4-21-08 n=403 Only 1.7% of the residents think that red light running is not a problem in Lafayette. Only 3.7% of the residents think that speeding is not a problem in Lafayette. 86% believe that red light running is extremely or very dangerous to drivers and passengers. 70% believe that speeding is extremely or very dangerous to drivers and passengers. 55% of residents have witnessed increased red light running in recent years.

Public Opinion Poll 4-21-08 n=403 The majority agreed with this statement I want cameras because they make drivers pay more attention 76% agree with the use of cameras for red light monitoring only 21% disagree with use. 77% feel safer with cameras. 68% agree with the use of cameras for speed monitoring, 28% disagree. However, 72% said they feel safer with the cameras for speed. If put to a vote today 66% would vote to keep the cameras

Before and After 1 Year

Before and After (1-1-07 through 1-1-09) Total Crashes at Non SafeLight Locations Within 100 ft 600 500 400 Total Crashes Before 560 After 329 Difference 231 Percent Change -41% 300 Before 200 After 100 0 Total Rear End Head On Right Angle Side Swipe

Before and After Total Crashes at SafeLight Locations Within 100 ft 45 40 35 30 25 Total Crashes Before 64 After 27 Difference 37 Percent Change -58% 20 15 10 5 Before After 0

Responses to Crashes By Acadian Ambulance Cummulative 1800 1600 y = 143.27x - 35.561 R² = 0.9992 1400 y = 134.09x + 12.455 R² = 0.9967 1200 1000 Cummulative Responses to 2007 Crashes 800 Cummulative Responses to 2008 Crashes 600 Linear (Cummulative Responses to 2007 Crashes) 400 Linear (Cummulative Responses to 2008 Crashes) 200 0 Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

SafeLight and SafeSpeed Lafayette For additional information contact: Tony Tramel Travis Smith 337-291-8545 or 337-291-8506 ttramel@lafayettegov.net tsmith@lafayettegov.net SafeLight SafeSpeed Local Office: 265-2520