Rights on red at red light cameras

The in basket: Sharrell Lee e-mailed to say, “My brother-in-law received a mailing in West Bremerton that advised him that, with the new red-light cameras, drivers will be ticketed for coming to a complete stop at a red light and then safely turning right.
“Is this true?” she asks.

The in basket: Sharrell Lee e-mailed to say, “My brother-in-law received a mailing in West Bremerton that advised him that, with the new red-light cameras, drivers will be ticketed for coming to a complete stop at a red light and then safely turning right.
“Is this true?” she asks.
The out basket: Lt. Pete Fisher of Bremerton police’s traffic division, says he doesn’t know where such a mailing might have come from, but it wasn’t from the city and that claim is untrue.
The only places a right on red will be illegal is where there are signs saying so, Pete tells me, such as 11th and Naval and Sixth and Montgomery. Poor sight distance at those intersections prompts the restriction, which has existed for years and has nothing to do with the cameras.
Of those two, only 11th and Naval is being actively considered for a red light camera, and it is not among the four intersections designated for them so far.
Incidentally, all the cuts made in the pavement at the southeast corner of 11th and Warren a couple weeks ago is for the wires to serve a red light camera there. The cuts were made about the same time as those at 16th and Warren, where the cameras are in place and are to be operative any day now, if they are not already.
The other intersections where red light infractions will be monitored by camera are 11th and Callow and Wheaton and Sylvan, where the cameras already are working. Pete says they’ve sent out 283 warning letters so far notifying drivers that they would have been cited if the city wasn’t still in a 30-day warning period. The warning letters will end next Monday, and fining ($124 per infraction) will begin.