Court Decisions Supreme Court scheduled to decide on accepting traffic cam initiative appeal March 27
Supreme Court scheduled to decide on accepting traffic cam initiative appeal March 27
December 20th, 2011 12 PM PST by jared - The Bellingham Herald
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The state Supreme Court is tentatively scheduled to decide whether to accept Transportation Safety Coalition’s appeal on March 27, according to the court clerk’s office.
TSC appealed a lower court ruling that the Bellingham initiative restricting traffic-enforcement cameras doesn’t hold the force of law, although the court let it remain on the ballot. It passed in November with 68 percent in favor.
The case is American Traffic Solutions v. City of Bellingham, Supreme Court case no. 86594-9.
Bellingham doesn’t yet have a fixed date for installing the cameras. The city is under a contract with ATS to install four red-light cameras and two school-zone speed cameras. The contract is being implemented, and the City Council hasn’t taken any kind of action that would affect it, city spokeswoman Janice Keller said.
Among the various people within city government that have responsibilities for installation, the details are still being discussed,” she said, including things like installing necessary electrical lines, computers in courtrooms, etc … .
The city has no firm dates for installing and activating the cameras, although the city will likely have an accurate timeline after the first of the year, she said. They work on installing them during the first and second quarters of 2012, she said.
“We expect that this will be up and running in the first half of the year,” she said.
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