The Iowa Department of Transportation has concluded red light and speed cameras in Davenport have generally made several busy intersections safer, but not all.
Traffic Engineer, Gary Statz, says last spring the city had to submit crash data for the cameras along state highways in the city. And the agency says all but one are enhancing safety - the one it ordered removed is at Kimberly Road and Elmore Avenue.
Muscatine has camers at four intersections along state routes, and will get to keep three of them.
Davenport has one month to appeal, but no decision has been made yet.
Statz is pleased the Iowa DOT agrees the city's cameras are making the intersections safer - at 35th and Harrison, Kimberly at Brady, and Kimberly at Welcome Way. Speed cameras are also located on East River Drive and Brady Street.
He says Davenport installed its first red light and speed cameras in 2004, and was the first city in Iowa to do so.
