Pali, Likelike Ticket Hot Spots
Statistics Show 6 MPH Limit
POSTED: 5:35 p.m. HST February 6, 2002
UPDATED: 6:04 p.m. HST February 6, 2002
HONOLULU -- KITV 4 News obtained more revealing statistics Wednesday about the state's traffic camera system.
Court records show exactly where tickets are being issued and how far over the speed limit you had to go to get busted.
Photo citation records for January show most of the tickets were issued on the Pali Highway and Likelike Highway. That's something a lot of Windward Oahu drivers already suspected.
"You go past to where the Pali is and it's 25 mph. To me, that's entrapment," Windward truck driver, Keala Harvest, said.
The placement of the van-cams on Pali Highway and Likelike Highway led to early cries of foul from Windward drivers who saw the vans every day.
Records of more than 3,600 tickets issued in January show that more than 1,300 tickets, or 37 percent of all the January tickets, were issued on Likelike Highway while 23 percent were issued on Pali Highway.
Together the Windward highways accounting for more than 60 percent of all the tickets issued in the first month.
"I found the numbers shocking. I had heard from people on the Windward side that we were getting targeted and this confirms it. In fact, I think it is even worse than I anticipated it to be," Sen. Bob Hogue said.
The state said the Pali Highway and Likelike Highway were not targeted on purpose. However, because computer and court problems limited the vans to the Honolulu district for the first month, there were very few places to park the vans.
Moanalua Road and H-1 in Kalihi had the second-most citations. The H-1 by Pearl Harbor was a distant fourth. A handful of tickets were issued on Kalanianaole Highway past Sandy Beach and on Nimitz Highway in Iwilei.
The records also show drivers had to go 6 mph over the speed limit to get a ticket for most of the month and that led to more tickets daily.
When the threshold was nine miles over the speed limit during the first part of the month, an average of 117 tickets were issued daily. After the threshold dropped to 6 mph the daily tickets average went up to 178 tickets daily.
Previous Stories:
- February 6, 2002: Legislators May Vote To Repeal Traffic Cameras
- February 5, 2002: Lawmakers Consider Traffic Camera Change
- February 2, 2002: State Unveils Traffic Camera Locations
- February 1, 2002: State Changing Placement Of Speed Vans
- January 31, 2002: Denver Traffic Camera Case Could Affect Hawaii
- January 29, 2002: Cayetano Changes Stance On Traffic Cams
- January 25, 2002: Motorists Slam Traffic Cam Program
- January 24, 2002: State Alters Speed Allowances
- January 18, 2002: Speed Cameras: Residential Zones Left Out
- January 15, 2002: Republicans Propose Traffic Camera Changes
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