New speed cameras are being set up. But figuring out where they're located could be difficult.

You're used to seeing speed cameras usually in front of a patrol car. It snaps a picture of your license plate if you're going over the speed limit.

"A lot of people drive here at 50 mph on Connecticut Avenue. It's nuts," said Patrick Guilfoyle.

Starting this month new speed cameras in D.C. won't only be on patrol cars. Police are using stand alone cameras. And nobody wants to get caught by one.

"When you get that first notice in the mail that says we saw you. You begin to think about it," said Barbara Parker.

But, most agree the cameras are needed. Mary Horton walks from her home to run errands and says she's concerned about walking across some streets. "I think things have really gotten out of control with these big intersections. People going through red lights," said Horton.

Guilfoyle says, he was there when a man was hit and killed on Connecticut Avenue earlier this year. "You don't have anything to worry about if you're not speeding," he said.

The new speed cameras are going up on stretches of Eastern Avenue, the Southeast- Southwest Freeway, Military Road NW and Suitland Parkway, SE. And, for the next month, if caught, drivers will only get a warning in the mail.

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