On Monday, penalties begin if caught speeding on camera

The warning period for people caught speeding in Fort Collins’ new “speed corridors” is over starting Monday, Nov. 25.

That means anyone caught speeding 10 miles or more over the limit in these corridors will receive tickets and fines if a camera records their violation.

The corridors include six intersections and 19 stretches of streets.

The one exception to penalties, for now, is the College Avenue and Drake Road intersection, where a 30-day warning period began Nov. 11 and will continue until Dec. 11, when citations will begin.

Where are Fort Collins’ speed corridors?

Six intersections in the city area are already fitted with cameras to record red-light violations. Now these cameras will be able to record speeding violations as well, from certain approaches.

Mobile units can also be placed at any location within any speed corridor to record violations and trigger a ticket, which will be sent by mail.

Fort Collins Police Services, which already had four Jeep vehicles outfitted with camera radar systems, added two new transportable radar units to its fleet as part of the program’s expansion.

The speed corridors are:

• Intersection of Mulberry Street and Shields Street

• Intersection of Prospect Road and Shields Street

• Intersection of Harmony Road and Shields Street

• Intersection of Drake Road and Lemay Avenue

• Intersection of Drake Road and College Avenue (30-day warning period started Nov. 11)

• Intersection of Harmony Road and Timberline Road

• Suniga Road from College to Lemay avenues

• Riverside Drive from College Avenue to Pitkin Street

• Prospect Road from Taft Hill Road to Interstate 25

• Drake Road from Overland Trail to Miles House Avenue

• Horsetooth Road from College Avenue to Ziegler Road

• Harmony Road from Chokecherry Trail to Interstate 25

• Trilby Road from Wainwright Drive to College Avenue

• Taft Hill Road from Mulberry Street to Trilby Road

• Shields Street from Elizabeth Street to Bon Homme Richard Drive

• College Avenue from Carpenter Road to Laurel Street

• Lemay Avenue from Prospect Avenue to Trilby Road

• Timberline Road from Prospect Avenue to Trilby Road

• Ziegler Road from William Neal Parkway to Kechter Road

• Conifer Street from College to Lemay avenues

• Mulberry Street from Taft Hill Road to 12th Street

• Stuart Street from College to Lemay avenues

• Elizabeth Street from Overland Trail to Shields Street

• Overland Trail from Mulberry Street to Drake Road

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