More than 20 locations in South LA will get speed cameras under a pilot program that gets rolling this fall.
The plan, which was approved by the LA City Council last month, will cover a total 125 targeted zones in the city, according to LA Department of Transportation documents. The cameras could start snapping photos of speedsters as early as July, with a 60-day warning period — where drivers wouldn’t be fined — running into September.
LADOT says the cameras are aimed at reducing traffic fatalities while complying with a 2023 state law that requires LA and five other cities to establish automated speed enforcement programs before 2032.
LA saw 290 traffic fatalities in 2025, according to LA Police Department data, 6% less than 2024. Several of the city’s deadliest intersections are clustered in South LA along Western Avenue, Vermont Avenue and Figueroa Street, according to data analyzed by Crosstown.
Where will the speed cameras be installed in South LA?
Some intersections will have multiple camera clusters installed on the streets around them. The intersection of Gage Avenue and Figueroa Street, for example, will have cameras to the north, south and west.
Cameras will be located on:
- Figueroa Street between Adams Boulevard and 23rd Street
- Figueroa Street between Gage Avenue and 62nd Street
- Figueroa Street between 68th Street and Gage Avenue
- Figueroa Street between Manchester Avenue and 85th Street
- Normandie Avenue between 62nd Street and 64th Street
- Western Avenue between 55th Street and 53rd Street
- Western Avenue between 24th Street and Adams Boulevard
- Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between Hobart Boulevard and Saint Andrews Place
- Florence Avenue between Van Ness Avenue and Haas Avenue
- Florence Avenue between Vermont Avenue and Hoover Street
- Vermont Avenue between Florence Avenue and 71st Street
- Vermont Avenue between 58th Place and 57th Street
- Vernon Avenue between Wadsworth Avenue and McKinley Avenue
- Gage Avenue between Hoover Street and Figueroa Street
- Gage Avenue between Halldale Avenue and Raymond Avenue
- Slauson Avenue between Brentwood Street and Inskeep Avenue
- Slauson Avenue between Budlong Avenue and Menlo Avenue
- Central Avenue between 92nd Avenue and 91st Street
- Avalon Boulevard between 77th Street and 74th Street
- Manchester Avenue between Wadsworth Avenue and Central Avenue
- La Brea Avenue between Veronica Street and Coliseum Street
- La Cienega Boulevard between Coliseum Street and Bowesfield Street
- Arlington Avenue between Adams Boulevard and 18th Street
- Jefferson Boulevard between Crenshaw Boulevard and Bronson Avenue
How much will tickets cost?
Cameras will snap a photo of a speeding vehicle’s rear that includes its license plate as well as its make and model.
The system will document the date, time and vehicle speed, then issue a citation to the vehicle’s registered owner, according to LADOT’s policy plan.
Fines will ratchet higher based on how fast a vehicle is moving, starting with a $50 fine for vehicles going 11 to 15 mph above the limit.
Vehicles moving 16 to 25 mph over the limit will get $100 fines, and vehicles going 26 mph or more over the limit will get $200 fines.
The max fine will be $500 for vehicles that go 100 mph or more above the speed limit.
LADOT said camera images will not include rear windshields or faces, and that state law does not allow the cameras to use facial recognition technology.
How were speed camera locations selected?
Some Angelenos submitted comments to LADOT, worrying the speed camera program will disproportionately affect people of color, according to a March 20 department memo.
LADOT said in the memo that it worked to minimize any inequity, in part, by distributing the cameras evenly across the city’s 15 council districts, with every district getting at least eight cameras, and no district getting more than nine.
The transportation department said it based much of its location selection on speed-related collision data and proximity to places like senior centers and schools.
State law requires that the city continue monitoring the program’s effectiveness and impact on civil rights and liberties, according to LADOT.
