citations for speeding<\/a> using cameras on Sunday, and it has neighbors divided.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cAbout three of my family members were issued warnings. And were advised there will be citations today, if they make the mistake again,\u201d Mike, who is from East Oakland, told CBS News Bay Area.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been really cautious driving down 98th because there\u2019s a couple of them and I\u2019ve seen them,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The city installed cameras across 18 locations, where they can detect a driver going 11 miles or more than the posted speed limit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In early January, the city had launched a program with a 60-day warning period, issuing 140,000 speed warnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just feeling like this is a total speed trap. People going 20 miles per hour on Broadway is unheard of. I don\u2019t like it,\u201d Edward \u201cL\u201d Wooley, who lives in Oakland, told CBS News Bay Area.<\/p>\n
He was driving past 27th and Broadway, one of the intersections with speeding cameras.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody just needs to drive cautiously. Nobody needs to be speeding,\u201d he said. \u201cThousands of cars drive through here daily, people coming to pick up kids, it\u2019s all types of stuff going on over here. I notice they got all these speed limits posted 20 miles per hour and everything, but nobody\u2019s thinking to go down 20 miles per hour on Broadway.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gabriel Bick, who is also from Oakland, said he notices distracted and speedy drivers, especially along 23rd Street.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He hopes the city will provide more clarification about citations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cTraffic calming measures are positive. I know, like from talking to my neighbors, there have been some complaints about the specific implementation in terms of where the speed limit changes, and that being potentially confusing,\u201d Bick said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
City officials reassure that their systems don\u2019t capture videos. They add that those images would only be kept for five days if no violation is issued. If there is a violation issued, the photo would be in the system for 60 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mike said that all of this can be avoided by doing just this.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMy best advice for the commuters is wake up a little earlier. Don\u2019t be a rush, last-minute thing, try to beat the traffic,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speeding tickets range from $50 to $500, depending on how many miles the driver goes over the speed limit. City officials are also offering low-income and public benefits at discounted rates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CBS Bay Area The City of Oakland began issuing citations for speeding using cameras on Sunday, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-221756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}