LA's Speed Cameras Just Went Live. Here's What They Mean for the Homes on Those Streets.
LA's first speed cameras switched on October 26, with 125 locations due by year end. What they could mean for the houses on those streets, the blocks around them, and the city they are trying to slow down.
Why LA Put Its Speed Cameras Where It Did
LADOT scored 7,271 street segments and gave crashes 30% of the weight. Then the list was split evenly across 15 council districts. Here is how the 125 locations were chosen.
Every Westside Speed Camera, Street by Street
Sixteen of LA's 125 speed camera locations sit in Council Districts 5 and 11, and eight of them were in the first wave. Here is every one, with the posted limit and what kind of street it is.
LA Speed Camera Tickets: What They Cost, When They Start and How to Fight One
The first LA speed cameras are mailing warnings now, and fines start when each camera's 60-day grace period ends. The full fine schedule, the points question and how the review process works.
What LA's Speed Cameras Record, and What They Are Not Allowed to Do
Rear plate only, no faces, and photos with no violation deleted within five days. Here is what LA's Use Policy says about speed camera data, and who can get to it.
Where LA's Speed Camera Money Goes, and Why Homeowners Should Care
The fines have to pay for the program first. After that, state law says surplus money goes to traffic calming within three years, and camera streets that do not slow down can get rebuilt. That is the part homeowners should watch.
Do Slower Streets Raise Home Values? Here Is What the Research Actually Says
Nobody has studied speed cameras and home prices directly. But decades of research on traffic, noise and walkability say a lot about what a calmer boulevard could be worth, and how slowly it shows up.
San Francisco's Speed Cameras Cut Serious Speeding 84%. Here Is What That Predicts for LA.
San Francisco is eighteen months in and Oakland is past six. Their numbers are the best preview Los Angeles has of what 125 cameras will do, along with a few caveats the headlines leave out.
Should a Speed Camera Go in Your Listing Remarks?
A camera on the block is not a defect, but it is a fact buyers will find. How to handle it in disclosures, remarks, photos and showings without making promises you cannot keep.
Before You Buy on a Busy Street, Check These Five Public Maps
The listing will tell you about the kitchen. It will not tell you the street ranks among the city's most dangerous. Five free public tools that will, and how to read them in ten minutes.
Will LA's Speed Cameras Push Traffic Onto Your Side Street?
It is the first thing neighbors ask. The research on speed cameras and diverted traffic is thinner than you would like, but what exists is mostly reassuring. Here is what it says, and what to do if your block changes anyway.
Malibu's PCH Speed Cameras Logged 100,000 Violations in a Nine-Day Test
Malibu's speed cameras are installed but not ticketing yet. A nine-day test in September recorded about 100,000 speeding violations, most of them in eastern Malibu. Warnings start in November, fines in January.