By Shelly Bradbury
Times Free Press
Tennessee lawmakers passed a bill in April that bans the use of all unmanned speed cameras on Tennessee roads except the cameras on Hixson’s S-curves and cameras in school zones throughout the state. Sen. Todd Gardenhire helped push the bill through the legislature with much the same logic Cook holds to, at least in principle.
Chattanooga’s speed cameras will be discontinued as the contracts between the city and the camera vendor, Sensys America, run out. The cameras on Barton Avenue already have been disabled, but the others won’t be taken down until March 2017.
The city earned about $155,000 from speed and traffic cameras in 2013, and another $681,000 in 2014, according to city financial reports. In those two years, Sensys America earned $1.5 million from the cameras, records show.
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