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YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown Police Department will begin an automated traffic enforcement speed device program at seven additional schools in the city.
Today starts the initial 30-day warning period involving the seven new schools. Violators will receive a warning in the mail that carries no fine.
The unmanned traffic-camera system for the 11 initial school zones in the city began Jan. 17 with a 30-day warning period. Citations costing $100 to $150 depending on the speed began after that warning period expired.
Violators will receive a citation in the mail. This offense is a civil violation and is not considered a traffic violation. People will not receive points on their driver's license, and it will not be reported to insurance companies. The automated speed zone will be enforced only on school days.
The seven added zones and their enforcement times are:
• Cardinal Mooney High School, Erie Street, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Potential Development, Market Street, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Taft Elementary School, Gibson Street, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Youngstown Academy of Excellence, Rigby and South Jackson street, 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Harding Elementary School, Benita and Cordova avenues, 7:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Ursuline High School, Wick Avenue, 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Youngstown Early College, Wick Avenue and Wood Street, 6:15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Schools were added to the program as the cameras became available.
Restricted 20 mph times are posted on a sign before entering every school zone. During nonrestricted times, the regularly posted speed limit will be photo enforced when school is in session and children are present until 6 p.m.
Blue Line Solutions is the Chattanooga, Tenn., company that is running the system.
"The ultimate goal is to provide a safer environment for our students, parents, teachers and anyone else traveling through school zones by reducing the amount of speeding vehicles," Sgt. Jose Morales Jr. of the internal affairs division of the police department, said previously.
Using such systems has been shown to reduce speeding in school zones by "up to 92 percent in just the first 90 days," Morales said.