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Colorado Springs Police Department officer Barry Rizk  examines a possible violation from a red light camera  Nov. 3, 2010 at the Robert M. Isaac Municipal Court building.
Colorado Springs Police Department officer Barry Rizk examines a possible violation from a red light camera Nov. 3, 2010 at the Robert M. Isaac Municipal Court building.
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A week after hailing them as a high-tech way to make the city’s streets safer, Colorado Springs police said Tuesday they plan to stop using cameras to catch red-light runners by the end of the year.

Interim Police Chief Pete Carey informed the City Council of the decision during a work session on the Police Department’s 2012 budget.

“The jury’s still out,” Carey said on whether the cameras cut down on accidents at the four intersections where they had been installed: Bijou Street and Nevada Avenue; Circle Drive and Platte Avenue; Murray Road and Platte; and Oro Blanco Drive and Barnes Road.

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