The City of Seattle is spending $150,000 to remove the more than two dozen surveillance cameras placed around the city in 2013 but never put into use.

The Seattle Department of Transportation will repurpose the cameras they said.

Th cameras have already been taken down in West Seattle, Magnolia and Golden Gardens with others to follow.

The system was the source of public concern but was intended to be a dedicated wireless network providing a view of Seattle’s shoreline during emergency responses. Privacy advocates objected even though rigorous procedures were put in place to satisfy those issues. The City did not say why the program was never implemented.