{"id":334960,"date":"2026-05-27T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334960\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T21:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T21:29:08","slug":"oakland-speed-cameras-ticketing-thousands-of-motorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334960\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland speed cameras ticketing thousands of motorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motorists speeding through Oakland beware. The city\u2019s new speed cameras aren\u2019t only recording you, they\u2019re issuing thousands of tickets to violators every day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandside.org\/2026\/05\/26\/oakland-speed-cameras-82000-fines-in-40-days\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Oaklandside reports <\/a>Oakland installed 35 cameras in January at busy intersections around the city to monitor speeding, but didn\u2019t start issuing tickets to motorists until two months ago. Since then, the city has issued about 2,000 speeding tickets-a-day.<\/p>\n<p>Any motorist caught driving more than 16 miles-per-hour over the speed limit automatically gets a citation. Those traveling at slower speeds are issued warnings.<\/p>\n<p>According to Craig Raphael, the manager of the city Department of Transportation\u2019s speed camera program, the city has sent out 82,000 citations and about 70,000 warnings in the first 40 days of the program.<\/p>\n<p>At an average of $50 per violation, that could mean as much as four million dollars in the city\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the busiest spot is the 2300 block of 73rd Avenue. The southbound camera there has issued more than 8,000 violations The average speed there is about 45 miles-per-hour \u2013 15 over the posted speed limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motorists speeding through Oakland beware. The city\u2019s new speed cameras aren\u2019t only recording you, they\u2019re issuing thousands of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-334960","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\/334960","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=334960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}