City officials in Clearwater are looking at a red light camera expansion.
The main intersections under consideration are U.S. 19 and Sunset Point, U.S. 19 and Drew Street and Sunset Point and Belcher Road.
The city installed cameras at the intersections of Gulf to Bay Boulevard and Belcher Road and Chestnut Street and S Fort Harrison Avenue in July 2012. Since then, the police department has issued 16,517 tickets for running red lights at those intersections.
Police Chief Dan Slaughter says the cameras are working and the number of crashes has reduced at the intersections where the cameras are located.
The cameras have had mixed results in other communities.
St. Petersburg killed its camera program in May after crashes rose at camera-monitored intersections. But Tampa decided in April to keep its cameras because crashes there dropped.
In June, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that more than a dozen local governments — including several in the Bay area — illegally established red-light camera programs by installing them prior to the Legislature approving them in 2010.
According to Bay News 9's partner newspaper the Tampa Bay Times, that ruling didn't affect Clearwater, Gulfport, Kenneth City, Oldsmar or South Pasadena.
No changes to the program are expected before the city's contract with the camera-operating company ends in July.