This is just a revenue generator for the county, an additional tax, has nothing to do with the safety of the children. In the near future expect to see these speed cameras placed in non school zones, most likely on streets with 25-30mph speed limits to maximize revenue.

People can easily avoid being affected by these enforcement camera by obeying the speed limit. It's very simple.

Speeding is a habit that needs to be broken by consistent enforcement. I drive Clarksville Pike every morning and regularly see drivers passing the elementary and high schools at more than 50 miles an hour. Have these people never worried about the safety of their own children?

I agree. I recently received a ticket for speeding on Vollmerhausen Road. School was out, I was in a hurry to get home, I broke the law, I received a ticket. Sometimes we ALL need a reminder. I have been much more aware lately. For those of you complaining, I can only surmise that you are getting tickets and refusing to slow down. Slow down!
Lorraine Kelly

How does anyone feel their children are safe because a plain white van is parked sporadically in front of a school and takes a picture of a license plate, mails the owner (not always the driver) a bill for $40 two weeks later, with no threat of points on their record or an increase in insurance rates or even worse not doing anything to slow the vehicle down at that moment?

Brook,

The worst offenders should be ticketed, given points and have their insurance raised-that is a consequence. The white vans and their $40 fine are essentially a sin tax, the county nor the state does not care how many of these tickets a vehicle gets as long as they pay their $40. If the county knows there are certain hot spots for speeders, then the county should do more than just park a plain white van there. In fact, the county should make the vans as visible as possible, either through high visibility paint, reflective striping or orange safety cones placed around the van, that way more people would see the vans and slow down. This will not generate as much money, but it would be more effective than mailing consequence bills to vehicle owners. Speed bumps will fix this issue much better than the current offering.

I didn't say it was a perfect solution nor that more severe consequences wouldn't be better. I'm all for severe consequences for traffic violations and feel there are too many people on the road that never should be put behind the wheel. If I had my way, just getting a license would be harder and more restricted on vehicle type.

That being said, this is a start. Just like the seatbelt laws that everyone railed against and weren't listened to became a standard of driving... and hopefully soon the cellphone laws will go the same way... using speed cameras is the beginning. Perhaps as people get used to $40 tickets in the mail, the price will go up and the presence of points may occur.

As I said, I'd rather have ~some~ consequence (no matter how small) than no consequence. We can quibble about the next step once this one is settled.

Brook,

Speed cameras are a passive system, If the county really cared about "the children", they could easily engineer active systems like speed bumps, calming strips or other measures that truly slow a vehicle down. Do you want vehicles to slow down or just get a consequence, because the are two totally different things.

All of these various speed traps -mobile or stationary cameras - are totally devised only for the money. I actually find it hard to believe a grown adult doesn't understand this!
What Sean says above is only one tell-tale sign. The are countless others, too many to list here.
Another point is, so-called 'speeding' is not in itself as dangerous as many proponents make it sound to be. If everyone drove exactly at or below the speed limit on every road, the gridlock would be incredible!
If a river is dangerous and has a greater potential for drowning victims - do you stop the river, or stop people from entering it?
I know it's an extreme example, but the world has to move. Keep 'the children' safe by keeping them out of the streets where they don't belong... if that's really the objective here....

it is money,but more importantly it is about behavior modifacation changing the behavior of speeding,grow up

I believe the best way to show our support for school zone speed cameras is to lay on our horns for the entire length of any marked school zone. This act of audible support will prove to people living along that stretch of road that no matter what, day or night, we are staunch proponents of speed cameras near their homes. Second, this 110db reinforcement will also warn children playing in the area that a vehicle is approaching. I would imagine the families with small sleeping children would appreciate this show of support so much, they would call the police department to express how much they like having the cameras located on their street.