Three new red-light cameras will be activated in Bellevue on Thursday, setting a 30-day grace period where drivers will receive warnings instead of citations. A new school zone speed camera also has been installed in front of Sunset Elementary.

Bellevue city councilmembers approved adding the three new cameras in July. The first traffic enforcement cameras were authorized in 2009. American Traffic Solutions added cameras to the eastbound and westbound intersection of Northeast Eighth Street and 112th Avenue Northeast and one at the westbound intersection of Northeast Eight and 116th Avenue Northeast. The school zone camera at Sunset Elementary is located on the 4400 block of West Lake Sammamish Parkway Southeast (southbound only) and will be activated later in January after school restarts.

After the grace period ends, infractions will result in a $124 fine.

That grace period will not be extended at intersections and school zones that have had enforcement cameras there for the past four years: Two speed zone cameras at Stevenson and Lake Hills elementary schools and red-light cameras at the north and southbound intersections of 148th Avenue Northeast and Bel-Red Road and southbound 148th Avenue Northeast and Main Street.