20% of Red Light Camera Tickets are Going Unpaid. - We're only getting payment on about 80 percent of [them]," says Pueblo City Manager Jerry Pacheco. This has left the city $20,000 in the red, which has some people criticizing it on a financial level. Originally the city council bought into the program because the money brought in by the cameras was projected to cover the cost to rent them. Pueblo pays $15,000 every month to rent three camera systems from American Traffic Solutions (ATS). The cameras cover two intersections in the city. That's $90,000 to date in rental fees. Currently, the city has only collected about $70 thousand from tickets. \
Could the Steel Cities red light cameras be putting the cities budget in the red? According to recent figures from the Pueblo Municipal Court, that's exactly the case…but there is a catch. "This is obviously a hiccup in the program," said Jerry Pacheco, the Pueblo City Manager. When installed last September, the City of Pueblo was hoping that the red light cameras would make at least two intersections in town safer to drive through. But no one was expecting that the cameras would put the city in the hole. The cameras are installed at the intersection of ...
