Most-ticketed intersection for red-light runners in BC is Georgia and Denman in Vancouver

VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – We’ve all seen it: impatient drivers blasting through red lights, and the flash of a camera following them.

Georgia and Denman in Downtown Vancouver is where the highest number of red-light tickets were handed out between 2012 and 2014 in all of BC.

Athena says she sees cars run the lights there all the time.

“When I’m waiting for the bus stop in the morning, it seems almost every light there’s someone going through, whether it’s just turned yellow or red, or sometimes people just blatantly go through but it’s been red for awhile.”

She doesn’t always feel safe at that intersection. “Usually, when the crosswalk is ready for me to go, I wait a bit and make sure because I’m always suspecting someone’s going to go through really fast. So, I kind of am careful when I’m crossing there.”

Numbers obtained by The Vancouver Sun from ICBC look at the tickets handed out between 2012 and 2014 at 140 places with red-light cameras around BC.

About 93,000 tickets were given out altogether — more than half of them were given to drivers who ran lights at the 25 worst spots.

Some cameras are running for longer periods of time than other cameras. There are also areas with a higher rate of tickets given out than Georgia and Denman, because there is less traffic.

Oak and 57th Street had the second-highest number of tickets issued. Nordel Way and 84th Avenue in Delta came third.

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