Montgomery Co. Study Shows Decline in Speeding

MONTGOMERY COUNTY deployed speed cameras at targeted stretches of roadways last year, and it appears that drivers are starting to slow down.

As The Post's Dan Morse reports, "the cameras are causing drivers to slow down on roads where the cameras are located and suggests that drivers in others parts of the county are easing off the gas for fear that cameras may be nearby." And those results could help efforts to expand speed camera enforcement in other parts of Maryland.

At locations where there were either cameras positioned or signs warning of camera enforcement, Morse reports, the proportion of drivers going 10 mph over the speed limit decreased by about 70 percent. At other studied locations, where there were no signs or cameras, speeding fell by 15 percent.

» "Drivers Slow Down Where Speed Cameras Are in Place, Study Says" [WaPo]