Cameras are already being widely used in Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Baltimore County, Baltimore city, and will soon be added in Frederick City, Chestertown, and Fruitland. Enforcement zones are usually labeled with "Photo Enforced" signs,. However we have gotten reports of cameras on roads with no such signs. Several types of cameras are in use, and cameras are becoming smaller, more mobile, and concealable.
Known Locations
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Where are they?
There are currently at least 29 individual speed camera programs approved in the state of Maryland as of the end of 2011. This compares to 106 individual speed camera programs in the entire country, so Maryland with 2% of the nation's population accounts for approximately 27% of the nation's speed camera programs.
- Baltimore
- Baltimore County
- Berwyn Heights
- Bowie
- Charles County
- Chestertown
- Cheverly
- Chevy Chase
- College Park
- Delmar
- Frederick
- Fruitland
- Gaithersburg
- Greenbelt
- Howard County
- Hyattsville
- Landover Hills
- Laurel
- Montgomery County
- New Carrollton
- Prince George's County
- Princess Anne
- Rockville
- Salisbury
- Silver Spring
- Statewide work zones
- Takoma Park
- Trappe
- Wicomico County
What to look for :
Fixed Pole Cameras. This model is provided by ACS State and Local Solutions and is comonly used in Montgomery County
Mobile Camera Vans owned by ACS Commonly used in Montgomery County.
ACS Portable Cameras. Chevy Chase Village, Rockville:
OptoTraffic/Sigma Space provided mobile camera trailers. Commonly used in Prince George's County towns and cities:
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And Now the Really Bad News
I'm sure some of you came to this page thinking you would learn where the cameras are so you could just slow down at those spots, or perhaps avoid roads where there are cameras. We're sorry to tell you this but that just isn't going to work. We already have more than 300 known locations, with more going up every day. Many towns are not releasing the locations of their (mobile) camera sites and we only learn about them after people start getting tickets.Local governments have a motive to use the cameras to impose a tax on out-of-town drivers, and they do not meet their revenue goals by conforming to the driving public's opinion of what is "fair". Some towns have set up deliberate traps by lowering speed limits, placing cameras in concealed locations immediately after a drop in the speed limit, and/or by failing to post the legally required signage. Most of the new "school zone" cameras going up in Baltimore and Prince George's are in school zones that were created solely for speed camera use and were never considered or marked as school zones before. The cameras are run by private companies who typically get a cut out of every citation. These companies conduct studies to find locations where the existing limit is FAR below what traffic engineering standards recommend (the 85th percentile speed) and where people are most likely to exceed the speed limit (often unintentionally). Those companies are very good at that.
What you see on this map is only the tip of the iceberg compared to what will be going on in a few years. There are those who would like to see speed cameras everywhere with no restrictions and they WILL keep coming back until they get that. Speed camera companies have been lobbying for this as well as for higher fines. Other types of cameras for other violations will also be coming. Some lawmakers have even proposed a system for tracking every vehicle and taxing us for every mile we drive! Passively accepting this will only result in more and more and more cameras. If you don't like the cameras you need to FIGHT BACK.
