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Alexandria expands school zone speed camera program to 6 locations

Published September 24, 2025 at 1:30PM

School Zone Speed Camera Program to Expand in 2025-26 School Year (Credit: City of Alexandria)

Alexandria will add three new school zone speed camera locations this fall, bringing the total number of monitored zones to six as the city works toward its Vision Zero goal of eliminating fatal and severe crashes by 2028.

The new cameras were installed at Alexandria City High School’s King Street campus on King Street between Quaker Lane and Scroggins Road, the school’s Minnie Howard campus on Braddock Road between Marlee Way and Marlboro Drive, and William Ramsay Elementary School on North Beauregard Street between North Morgan Street and Roanoke Avenue.

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4,800 tickets issued monthly by speed cameras in three Alexandria school zones

By James Cullum

Published September 25, 2024 at 9:00AM | Updated September 25, 2024 at 11:43AM

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An average of 4,800 speeding tickets are being issued every month in three Alexandria school zones, and the city’s school system will soon look for locations for future speed cameras.

The data was presented at a joint City Council/School Board Committee meeting at City Hall on Monday (Sept. 23).

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Police Department says 1/3 of speed camera tickets in Alexandria have gone unpaid

By Vernon Miles

Published September 9, 2024 at 10:05AM

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Alexandria’s speed camera program in school zones started one year ago, but so far a significant number of tickets issued since then have gone unpaid.

APD Communications Manager Tracy Walker told ALXnow that since the program started in September of 2023, there have been 47,020 tickets issued.

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School zone speed camera enforcement starts next week in Alexandria

By Vernon Miles

Published August 12, 2024 at 2:50PM

Speed cameras (via ACPS)

The City of Alexandria’s speed cameras in school zones will start issuing tickets again starting with the beginning of the school year next week.

Enforcement is scheduled to kick off on Monday, Aug. 19.

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Alexandria police want $20K to monitor crime in real-time

By James Cullum

Published April 18, 2024 at 10:45AM

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The Alexandria Police Department is asking City Council to fund an incentive program to help it monitor crime in real-time.

Council will consider the release of $20,000 to help create the Alexandria Real-Time Information Center (ARTIC) at its meeting on April 24.

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Warning: School zone speed cameras go live on Monday

By Vernon Miles

Published September 15, 2023 at 1:30PM

Speed camera locations around Alexandria (image via City of Alexandria)

If you speed near an Alexandria school zone, you’ve been warned: starting next Monday, you could get a ticket from the speed cameras.

Speed cameras were installed earlier this year near Francis Hammond Middle School, John Adams Elementary School, Ferdiannty T. Day Elementary School and George Washington Middle School.

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Alexandria activating new speed cameras as school year kicks off

By Vernon Miles

Published August 16, 2023 at 1:45PM

Speed camera locations around Alexandria (image via City of Alexandria)

Alexandria’s new speed cameras have already issued over 3,500 warnings. Soon, the city says those will become speeding tickets.

The City ran a two-week warning period at the end of the last school year and will start another one beginning Monday, Aug. 21, as the new school year starts. The City warned that the speed cameras will begin ticketing starting Sept. 18.

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Pump the brakes: new speed cameras issuing tickets starting today

By Vernon Miles

Published May 30, 2023 at 2:20PM

Map of speed cameras across Alexandria (image via City of Alexandria)

Drivers should always keep it slow in school zones but there’s a new incentive starting today: new speed cameras across Alexandria are issuing warning tickets starting today.

The new cameras have been installed near John Adams Elementary School, Ferdinand Day Elementary School, Francis Hammond Middle School and George Washington Middle School.

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Alexandria City Council wants to incentivize locals and businesses to get private security cameras

By James Cullum

Published April 27, 2023 at 3:45PM | Updated April 27, 2023 at 4:11PM

Alexandria City Hall sign (staff Photo by Jay Westcott)

Personal security cameras, speed cameras in school zones, summer youth employment programs and eviction prevention funding are just a few of the final additions included in the fiscal year 2024 budget by the Alexandria City Council on Tuesday.

Council approved funding a $20,000 program to encourage businesses and homeowners with a “small incentive” to set up security cameras to deter crime, as well as increase their coordination with the Alexandria Police Department.

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Four Alexandria schools participating in speed camera pilot

By James Cullum

Published March 27, 2023 at 3:30PM

Speed cameras (via ACPS)

Four Alexandria school zones have been selected for a pilot program to install speed cameras, according to a presentation prepared for a joint City Council and School Board meeting.

This is the first time Alexandria will use speed cameras, and the following locations were agreed upon by Alexandria City Public Schools, the police department and the Department of Transportation & Environmental Services:

Opinion

Poll: How do you feel about Alexandria’s new speed cameras?

By Vernon Miles

Published October 10, 2022 at 10:45AM

Tomorrow, Alexandria’s City Council is set to review a proposal to bring speed cameras to the city for the first time.

Though scattered across nearby D.C., until a few years ago Alexandria was prohibited from utilizing speed cameras by state ordinance. Now, the city is looking at installing five cameras at various school zones across the city.