Atlanta Metro Area Red Light Cameras

[4phun]

FYI here are the current cameras installed in the metro area. You may want to add these to the new BCD996T if you are using the GPS function. As soon as I fully understand exactly how the 996 GPS data is to be entered I will post that data also for these locations if anyone other than me needs it.

City Cross Street Cross Street Fine

Alpharetta Haynes Bride Rd N Point Pkwy $70
Alpharetta North Point Parkway Haynes Bridge Road $70
Alpharetta SR-120 (Old Milton Parkway) North Point Parkway $70
Alpharetta SR-120 (Old Milton Parkway) Haynes Bridge Road $70
Alpharetta SR-9 (Main) Academy Street $70
Alpharetta State Bridge SR-141 (Medlock Bridge) $70
Alpharetta West Side Parkway Windward Parkway $70
Atlanta Central Ave Mitchell St $70
Atlanta Hwy 316 Hwy 29 $70
Atlanta Jimmy Carter Boulevard Singleton Road $70
Buckhead Lenox Rd Peachtree Rd $70
Decatur Scott Blvd Clairemont Ave $70
Doraville Buford Hwy Motors Industrial/I-285 $70
Duluth Peachtree Industrial Boulevard Pleasant Hill Road $70
Duluth Pleasant Hill road Peach Tree Industrial Blvd $70
Flowery Branch Falcon Parkway Martin Road $70
Gwinnett Hwy 29 Indian Trail $70
Gwinnett County Indian Trail Lilburn Rd. Oakbrook Parkway $70
Lilburn Lawrencville Highway (U.S. 29) Indian Trail Lilburn Rd./Killian Hill $70
Marietta Allgood Road Cobb Parkway $70
Marietta Delk Road Franklin AVE $70
Norcross Indian Trail Road Oakbrook Parkway NW $70
Smyrna Cobb Pkwy/HWY 41 Windy Hill Rd $70
Snellville Scenic Hwy. (Ga. 124) Stone Mountain Highway (U.S. 78) $70

 

[4phun]

Red Light Enforcment

I understand some of these red light installations detect a violation using laser and other systems nationally use radar.

Has anyone detected any of these RL intersections with a common RD?

If so what kind of alert did you receive?

Did it remind you in time that you could lose $70 if you weren't alert at the intersection?

Do we now have any photo radar in GA?

We are entering the age of law enforcement robots!

 

[CapStar362]

these cameras are going up everywhere in Clayton County aswell. a couple of the camera's are even mounted to swivel in the direction of left hand turn lanes controlled by a independent light!!


i cant even list all the places they are posted. and these use LASER aswell. they have a IR LASER apparatus attached to the camera lens apparatus. RADAR would have a common "frost white" covering on its transceiver, while a LASER would have a clear glass cover.


the world we live in with our drivers getting more and more dangerous and irresponsible.


i have a Passport Sr7 Plus in my car and i dont get anything when i see people flying across red lights. i have external front and rear sensors with LASER, LIDAR and RADAR capability attached to this detector. im wondering if my jammers included in this SR7 Plus Package actually prevent these cameras from working?

 

[UPMan]

Maybe add a Wiki page for Red Light Camera database.

Location can be entered into the scanner as either:

DDDMMSS.ss
or
DEG (DDD.ddd)

In addition to the location, the info should include:
Direction of Travel (N, NE, E, SE, S, SW, W, NW)
If entered, the scanner will only alert you if you are traveling in generally the indicated direction. So, if the intersection only has a red light camera in the Northbound direction, you'd set it to N. If it has monitoring in all directions, leave it blank. If in 2 of 4 directions, I'd enter it twice...once for each direction.

Speed Limit (0-100 MPH in 5 MPH steps)
If entered, the scanner will only alert you if you are traveling greater than the indicated speed. For red-light cameras, probably leaving it unset is best (but for highway speed cameras, set for an appropriate speed to inhibit unneeded alerts).

 

[4phun]

If I had a one and a half grand laser defense system on my car it better zap those red light systems but good!

;>)

BTW I haven't noticed Victor Hill's cameras yet. I'll watch for them when I am down that way.

these cameras are going up everywhere in Clayton County aswell. a couple of the camera's are even mounted to swivel in the direction of left hand turn lanes controlled by a independent light!!


i cant even list all the places they are posted. and these use LASER aswell. they have a IR LASER apparatus attached to the camera lens apparatus. RADAR would have a common "frost white" covering on its transceiver, while a LASER would have a clear glass cover.


the world we live in with our drivers getting more and more dangerous and irresponsible.


i have a Passport Sr7 Plus in my car and i dont get anything when i see people flying across red lights. i have external front and rear sensors with LASER, LIDAR and RADAR capability attached to this detector. im wondering if my jammers included in this SR7 Plus Package actually prevent these cameras from working?

 

[CapStar362]

thats what im wondering, because i turned of the jammers, and someone went hauling across a red light....... sure enough... my LASER warning went off repeatedly!! i turned it back on..... it went silent.

at least i know im halfway safe from those cameras. i say halfway, because i dont know if they automatically start taking pictures even if the LASER is not tripped.

 

[4phun]

Suwanee, GA - Red Light Camera

I-85 and Lawrenceville-Suwanee
N34 01.805 W84 02.906

Peachtree Industrial Boulevard/McGinnis Ferry
N34 02.955 W84 05.524

Suwanee Dam and Peachtree Industrial Boulevard
N34 03.779 W84 04.481

 

[crashcrew]

Why are you guys so concerned with red light cameras? Do you run red lights routinely? Do you advocate running red lights? Have you ever had to cut someone out of a car after they've been T-boned by someone running a red light? I don't get it.

 

[Jay911]

Why are you guys so concerned with red light cameras? Do you run red lights routinely? Do you advocate running red lights? Have you ever had to cut someone out of a car after they've been T-boned by someone running a red light? I don't get it.

Same here. I'm perplexed - 100% of these red light cameras should be readily visible by the red light hanging from a traffic signal nearby.

Second, how does any of this have any bearing on the 996? Do these cameras use a conventional or trunked radio system? What's the deal?

 

[b7spectra]

I agree also! I HAVE pulled folks from t-bones during the 9 years I worked as a paramedic. How this works w/ the 996 is you plug in the GPS coordinates and it will let you know when you are just about there so you can slow down, stop at the red light and not get a ticket.

 

[Jay911]

I still fail to see why it's necessary to put in locations of the cameras when there are red lights hanging there above you to point them out. I'm far from an advocate of speed cameras, which are mobile and serve no deterrent purpose in reality, but the concept of marking down which signals have red light cameras (which, at least here, only take photographs if the vehicle enters the signal while the light is red - not yellow, and completely disregards vehicle speed) is completely baffling. I'm not sure I ever want to travel in Atlanta now, knowing that some posters here seem to be advocating blasting thru the red lights that they 'know' don't have cameras installed (by implying that they need to be notified of the ones that ARE camera-equipped, so they "don't get a ticket").

As for radar or laser, it's neither, at least here - it's tied into an induction loop in the pavement, set into the surface ahead of the travel lanes, into the intersection. It's coupled with the already-existing induction loop most intersections have to sense any cars queued up at the stop line. (Many see the large 6'x6' square with sealant around its periphery where the wire has been buried, and mistake it for a 'pressure switch' - it's actually measuring electric current and the changes that come from a large, dense metal object sitting above it.) The induction loops are enabled by power going to the red lamp in the traffic signal. If a vehicle is detected in the intersection (where the loop is put is in such a place that cross traffic can't trip it), the camera is triggered several times. People getting errant laser warnings are likely getting reactions from the visible light or infrared camera flashes going off.

I'm lucky enough that no traffic lights yet exist in my district, but they're coming soon - though highways and cross roads have provided their share of collisions to pull people from in the first 15 years of my career.

In any case.. if you see a red light, STOP MOVING - that way, avoiding a ticket is absolutely guaranteed.

 

[4phun]

Boy are you behind the times with no red lights. BTW you are behind the times in how they work as well as how the new red light camera enforcement works.

But for now just for the paranoid; Cobb county GA is installing different type of cameras where the in road loops have given them maintance problems to control the timing of the trraffic lights. Sophisticated photo software can recognize even a motor bike waiting to use the intersection, something loops can not do. This new system saves money by not having to mess with the pavement. I have noticed these at various intersections that I have comlalined to Cobb DOT about for years that the sensors were flaky. Somebody has listened and we have a new system at many intersections. Sometimes not the whole intersection but just covering the area where they have had in ground wire problems.

 

[Jay911]

Boy are you behind the times with no red lights.

Nope, just lucky enough to live in a beautiful rural area that has resisted urban sprawl encroaching upon it until this year or next.

BTW you are behind the times in how they work as well as how the new red light camera enforcement works.

Again nope, the above is how the majority of lights and enforcement cameras work, at least in the urban centers here. The intersections that are using comparison cameras in place of induction loops (comparison cameras take a 'mathematical' representation of the 'real-time' view of the intersection and compare it with a previously-saved representation of an empty intersection) are just starting to show up in some of the places here. And while I did mention above that traffic lights have yet to come to my neck of the woods, the area is far from a backwards hick town - so don't get any misconceptions that the fact that comparison camera intersections are just springing up here makes it any less 'modern' than anywhere else.

Also - if anyone tells you that the comparison cameras are being used for anything other than determining if there is traffic queued up at the stop line, they are completely full of it. Check for tinfoil hats.

BTW, you still haven't explained why red lights aren't sufficient indication that a red light camera is in the area. Many see your desire to map out the red light cameras as a means of validating blasting through red lights that don't have the cameras. Why would that be okay to do?

 

[DanRollman]

BTW, you still haven't explained why red lights aren't sufficient indication that a red light camera is in the area. Many see your desire to map out the red light cameras as a means of validating blasting through red lights that don't have the cameras. Why would that be okay to do?

The following is my particular answer to your question, and is in no way intended to condone the conduct of anyone whose answer would differ from mine because their honest answer invovles a desire to break the law...

I'd like to know where red light cameras are because I am interested in them and watching red-light runners around me get their due, even though I never "blast" through red lights myself. Similarly, I use a radar/laser detector even though I never exceed 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and even though the laser nature and "point and shoot" method of operation means a detector generally won't keep a speeder from getting a ticket in Georgia (and I have never received one). Simply put, I like to know what's going on around me. That's partly why I like scanners, too.

Your logic seems to be that we should not alert ourselves or others to the presence of red light cameras because if we do, it must be that we are dedicated lawbreakers intent on finding ways to continue to break the law without getting caught. By that logic, you shouldn't be on these forums, because your presence here causes me to think you operate a scanner, and if you operate a scanner and tell others how to do so, you must be a burglar or bank robber intent on avoiding apprehension during your crimes, or at least "validating" such behavior.

It is alarming to me when anyone equates the desire to learn more about how, where, and when law enforcement operates with the desire to commit criminal acts. It is particularly alarming when a scanner enthusiast makes such leaps of logic. As hobbyists who enjoy using scanners, which some ignorant segments of society assume are only used by criminals, we should be more sensitive to the idiocy of that logic-leap. We should remember that while a few do indeed use scanners innappriately, our continued dissemination of information related to our scanner hobby is not validation of their bad deeds, and should not be curtailed by the way in which some choose to use otherwise legitimate information.

 

[b7spectra]

Here! Here! Barrister! Sounds like a qualified lawyer talking here!

Anyway, I couldn't agree with you more. I think these folks who enjoy trying to circumvent the law should ride with PD/EMS and really see what happens when they do!

 

[4phun]

Dan I agree with you and those are similar to my thoughts.

I am - was certified/licensed by the FCC to repair and install radar.
I owned a business at one time that sold radar systems to business for security purposes in Florida. If you run into a lot of unexplained X band in a business area that may be one of those old security systems.

I took back the Whistler 1788 cordless to Radio Shack and I am going to buy a high dollar detector that does a whole lot more from Beltronics. I am interested in the scanning feature with a frequency readout of each hit to help identify different sources in the same band. Even with the el cheapo Whistler I discovered something interesting about Dobbins AFB. I hope the new detector will confirm my observation but it is for my own personal curiosity and not public consumption. Someone with an Islamic sounding name may try to take advantage of even the slightest local observation to figure out a way to harm us and I am not going to help him.


Vic

The following is my particular answer to your question, and is in no way intended to condone the conduct of anyone whose answer would differ from mine because their honest answer invovles a desire to break the law...

I'd like to know where red light cameras are because I am interested in them and watching red-light runners around me get their due, even though I never "blast" through red lights myself. Similarly, I use a radar/laser detector even though I never exceed 5-10 mph over the speed limit, and even though the laser nature and "point and shoot" method of operation means a detector generally won't keep a speeder from getting a ticket in Georgia (and I have never received one). Simply put, I like to know what's going on around me. That's partly why I like scanners, too.

Your logic seems to be that we should not alert ourselves or others to the presence of red light cameras because if we do, it must be that we are dedicated lawbreakers intent on finding ways to continue to break the law without getting caught. By that logic, you shouldn't be on these forums, because your presence here causes me to think you operate a scanner, and if you operate a scanner and tell others how to do so, you must be a burglar or bank robber intent on avoiding apprehension during your crimes, or at least "validating" such behavior.

It is alarming to me when anyone equates the desire to learn more about how, where, and when law enforcement operates with the desire to commit criminal acts. It is particularly alarming when a scanner enthusiast makes such leaps of logic. As hobbyists who enjoy using scanners, which some ignorant segments of society assume are only used by criminals, we should be more sensitive to the idiocy of that logic-leap. We should remember that while a few do indeed use scanners innappriately, our continued dissemination of information related to our scanner hobby is not validation of their bad deeds, and should not be curtailed by the way in which some choose to use otherwise legitimate information.