A warning sign at 41st Street and Rucker Avenue in Everett of red light enforcement cameras as seen July 3, 2024.
Photo by Michael Whitney.
EVERETT — The city’s traffic enforcement cameras are reducing red light running and school speed zone violations on Casino Road.
In May 2024, there were 2,977 violations, close to 3,000. In September 2024, that number was reduced to 2,242 violations.
Everett has seven red light cameras. The cameras are on northbound and southbound Broadway at 16th Street, northbound and southbound Rucker Ave at 41st Street, and eastbound 112th St. SW at Evergreen Way. The red light cameras were first installed in June 2024.
The cameras on 16th and Broadway were the first red light cameras installed.
This week, four more red light cameras were activated. These cameras will be located on northbound Evergreen Way at Casino Road, northbound Fourth Avenue W at Evergreen Way, and southwest Everett Mall Way at Seventh Avenue SE, and eastbound Casino Road at Evergreen Way.
Warnings started on June 30. Infractions will be mailed starting July 30.
There are also school speed zone cameras near Horizon Elementary off of Casino Road. One is on Casino Road eastbound at Fifth Ave. Another is on Casino Road westbound, east of Fred Meyer.
In 2023, there were 25 total crashes in or near Casino Road from Eighth Ave., West to Fred Meyer and Casino Square Drive.
Last year, Casino Road had nine crashes. Those crashes occurred at night and outside the times of the flashing beacons.
When the school speed zone cameras went in, starting on April 3, 2024, warning letters were mailed, and infractions were mailed starting on May 6, 2024
Drivers speeding more than 30 mph was 64.8% in April 2024, a presentation slide from a June Council subcommittee reported.
Soon after infractions were mailed, the amount of drivers driving 10 mph or more over the posted speed limit reduced. A continuation of that decrease “saw a more dramatic drop in speeds once notices of infraction began to be issued,” Everett Traffic Engineer Corey Hert said.
The speed limit is “20 miles an hour when the beacons are flashing,” Hert said.
The next month, speeding over 30 mph was 45.5%. In May 2025, it was 42.9%.
The city of Everett’s projected number of violations in the school zone was 915. In April 2025, it turned out to be 1,340 citations.
A reason for these numbers is that Casino Road is a five-lane arterial road. There are not a lot of “these camera systems and school zones that are on five lane arterials,” Hert said. This will take time for drivers to get used to the flashing beacons while driving “at or near 20 miles per hour,” Hert said.
There have been fewer injury crashes on 16th and Broadway. In 2023, there were seven injury crashes; after the cameras, there were four injury crashes. (The total crashes in 2023 was 14. In 2024, it was 12.)
The reduction “speaks to the overall safety improvement that these cameras bring,” Hert said. Regarding its impact on the community, “it not only made the school zone safer, but it made Casino Road safer,” he added.
In 2024, the Tribune reported that drivers exceeded “the 20 school zone limit were more than 95%.” More than 70% “of drivers drove over 30 mph,” the Tribune reported.
