ABC-7 Listens: Are Motorcycles Immune to El Paso Red Light Cameras?

Are motorcyclists getting a free ride when it comes to El Paso’s red light cameras?

That was the worry of an ABC-7 viewer.

The e-mailer said they saw a biker zip through a red light at Mesa and Shadow Mountain, seemingly, without the flash of a camera.

“The cyclist did a stupid and dangerous thing,” our viewer wrote. “But the brazenness with which he did it makes me suspect that he might have known he would not get a citation.”

El Paso police told ABC-7 they do not keep record of how many motorcyclists are cited through the cameras versus other vehicles.

So we asked the company behind the cams, REDFLEX, if there is a particular reason the cameras wouldn’t catch a motorcyclist. Perhaps the bikes are too fast or the license plates too small?

A company spokesman told ABC-7, “Yes, we can and do pick up motorcycle plates and the sensors that monitor the intersection equally track motorcycles as they do cars, SUVs, trucks, etc.”