You’re on video. College Park has installed cameras on nine stop signs around the city to collect data on traffic and parking.
College Park City Councilmembers will discuss the data at their Oct. 8 meeting and could decide to keep the cameras, take them down or add monitors to additional signs.
Councilmember Stuart Adams (District 3) said the city located the cameras at heavily trafficked intersections, “but there could be more review later.”
State Delegate Anne Healey (District 22) sponsored legislation in the spring that gave cities in Prince George’s County the authority to install stop sign monitors.
“There have been a lot of people that have talked to me about people just ignoring the stop signs, just running right through them, sometimes very fast and not slowing down at all, and near misses and accidents and people getting hurt,” Healey said. “So I expect that once the cameras are in place and people start getting tickets, they will change their behavior and actually stop at the stop signs where the cameras are.”
