The Iowa Department of Transportation has rejected the appeals from four Iowa cities that all want to keep using speed cameras in their areas. Steve Gent, director of the Iowa DOT’s Office of Traffic and Safety, says the denials were issued to Cedar Rapids, Council Bluffs, Des Moines and Muscatine. The agency had previously ordered several cities to turn off some speed cameras on or adjacent to state highways saying they required more justification for their use.

The City of Council Bluffs has already turned off its speed camera. Davenport city leaders chose not to appeal the DOT’s order and shut down their camera earlier this year.
The City of Sioux City had previously filed a lawsuit against the Iowa DOT over the use of its speed cameras on Interstate 29.

The citations issued to motorists from the speed cameras generate millions of dollars for the cities.