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School speed zone cameras have drastically reduced speeding during school hours at the James City County schools that have them, according to the company that leases them to police. They are also credited with deterring speeders in I-64 work zones.
Blue Line Solutions, the Tennessee company that provided the cameras to local police, said speed violations have dropped by 97.8% since the program began in September 2025.
In a presentation put together for today’s board of supervisors work session, Blue Line said the biggest improvement came at Norge Elementary School, where 90% of drivers were clocked going more than 10 mph above the 25 mph school zone speed limit during tests in 2023.
That number of violations in the Norge school zone dropped from 17,876 violations during the assessment period to 196 caught during enforcement hours after cameras were installed. In all, speeding incidents at local schools over a 5-day period dropped from 35,347 to 786, according to the data.
