As the beginning of the 2025-2026 academic year approaches, Albemarle County has announced that more locations will be subject to speed monitoring of school zones.
“Beginning Wednesday, August 13, 2025, speed enforcement cameras will be operational in the school zone on Rockfish Gap Turnpike (U.S. 250) in Crozet, adjacent to Western Albemarle High School, Henley Middle School, and Brownsville Elementary School,” reads an information sent out this afternoon at 2:48 p.m.
The first cameras were set up last year at the Lambs Lane campus which covers Albemarle High School, Journey Middle School, and Greer Elementary School. The county claims that there was a 49 percent decrease in speeding in the northbound traffic pattern and a 42 percent decrease in speeding in the southbound pattern.
The cameras are intended to detect and identify vehicles that are going ten miles an hour above the posted limit. There will be a warning period for the Crozet cameras from August 13 to September 14. The cameras go live for enforcement on Monday, September 15. The fine is $100.
Albemarle County will also begin a pilot program of installing cameras on the stop arms of four buses that will identify motorists who illegally pass the vehicles while they are stopped to pick up or drop off passengers.
“Our school bus drivers witness dangerous and illegal passing on their routes nearly every day,” the release quotes Jamie Gellner, transportation director for Albemarle County Public Schools. “Adding stop arm cameras will help hold drivers accountable.”
Fines will not accumulate points and citations will not appear on a person’s driving record.
Before you go: This story was first published in the July 30, 2025 edition of Charlottesville Community Engagement and then published here. One thing I really need to do is move to a content management system where it is all integrated. Will I do this thing? Stay tuned and click here to learn more about how I’m trying to get to another level.
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