Newark, NJ - December 15, 2009 - Mayor Cory A. Booker, the Municipal Council, Acting Engineering Director Mehdi Mohammadish, Police Director Garry F. McCarthy, Redflex executives, and other dignitaries will launch the City of Newark’s “Project Red Light” Automated Photo Enforcement System with a ceremony which will take place at Military Park at the northeast corner of Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard, in Newark, today, Tuesday, December 15, at 12:30 p.m.

Starting Wednesday, December 16, automated cameras deployed at the Broad Street and Raymond Boulevard intersection and the Broad and Market Street intersection will snap photographs of license plates of cars that run red lights. The owners of those vehicles will receive an $85 fine in the mail by Redflex Traffic Systems, of Phoenix, Arizona, which operates the cameras and will serve as an agent of the Newark Municipal Court. The City of Newark will bear no costs for the operation of the cameras in addition to the installation of cameras at eight new intersections which have been approved by the state Department of Transportation.

Newark is the first municipality in the State of New Jersey to install these cameras, which have proven successful in other cities across the nation for reducing the number of traffic accidents caused by motorists who run red lights and increasing pedestrian safety.