Red Light Cameras in Township to Get Certification

The Gloucester Township Council approved a measure this week to ensure the township's red-light cameras are working properly.

"Every six months we have to do this," Council President Glen Bianchini said. "We have to make sure the red light cameras are synchronized and working properly, the amber yellow light has to be on for a certain amount of time and everything has to be working properly."

Council passed the measure during a work session on Monday. It was called the Red Light Running Automated Enforcement Semiannual Certification.

Bianchini said the township has 10 red-light cameras that photograph the license plates of vehicles that run red lights and send out citations.

There are 76 authorized and operational red-light camera intersections throughout the state. Gloucester Township was one of 25 towns approved for the pilot program, and it flipped the switch on its 10 red-light cameras on Blackwood Clementon Road in July 2010.

Gloucester Township’s cameras are a huge moneymaker for the town. The township issued nearly 39,000 traffic tickets in the first 18 months of the cameras’ use, resulting in $2.5 million in fines. About $1.3 million of that was local revenue.

Bianchini said the township is approved for 16 red-light cameras, but there are no current plans to install more.