Earlier this year, The Lookout reported on the Richmond Department of Public Works’ somewhat confounding installation/activation of the city’s first red-light cameras. Recall, once the devices were finally put in place, they were spitting out warnings, rather than citations, for the first 30-ish days in operations. Richmond’s most reckless and selfish drivers got a little more consequence-free illegal public endangerment, as a treat.

Well, no more. On May 7th, DPW issued a press release announcing that as of April 29th, the cameras had issued “15,903 warnings and red-light running citations” at the first four locations they’d been installed.

In response to a request from The Lookout, Ross Catrow, the city’s director of the office of strategic communications, provided a breakout of that figure by location and type earlier this week.

These numbers total up to 18,137, which Catrow confirmed is the accurate cumulative figure. “The system updated with more citations (in the same period of time) between the press release and my table,” he wrote in an email exchange.

As you can see, while the intersection at North 25th and East Main Streets is terrifying in its own right (underlined in the chart above), it has actually seen the least amount of camera-clocked red-light running out of any of the four.

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