BY JESSICA PARKS
Coney Island speedsters
will now have contend with a
host of new traffi c cameras being
installed around the People’s
Playground.
The city’s Department of
Transportation is in the process
of installing cameras
throughout the area’s 13 school
zones — which operate on
weekdays between 6 am and 10
pm — in an effort to better protect
Coney Island students.
The cameras will be strategically
erected throughout
a quarter-mile radius around
the neighborhood’s school
buildings, and will result in
$50 fi nes by mail for offenders
caught driving above 35-milesper
hour — 10 more than the
city speed limit.
The Department of Transportation
did not reveal the
number of speed cameras coming
to America’s Playground,
but they were given the green
light to install 2,200 speed
cameras within 750 school
zones across the fi ve boroughs
— enough for about three per
school zone — when Gov. Andrew
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Cuomo signed a speed
camera bill in May.
That law — which was authored
by local state Sen. Andrew
Gounardes — expanded
the number of school zones
where speed cameras could
operate from 140 to 750, extended
the hours they could
operate, and widened the geographic
limits around those
school buildings.
Transit reps presented
their scheme to civic gurus
from Community Board 13 on
Nov. 14, when some locals expressed
concern over the new
technology inundating the
area — singling out an area
where the department plans
to erect two cameras along the
same stretch of Neptune Avenue.
“Don’t you think that is a
little unfair to the community
that you have two within a
two-block distance,” said Lucy
Acevedo.
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Ronda Messer assured board
members that the locations
were identifi ed using an algorithm
that cross-referenced
crash data with speeding.
Other civic buffs demanded
that the Transportation Department
foot the bill for new
road safety infrastructure that
will complement the infl ux of
speed-enforcement cameras,
and District Manager Eddie
Mark proposed placing speed
warning sign ahead of the two
cameras on Neptune Avenue
to further incentivize motorists
to slow down.
“And then if they don’t slow
down, you know what,” said
Mark. “You got a ticket.”
Craig Hammerman — the
former Park Slope civic guru
turned south Brooklyn transportation
advocate — criticized
the enforcement approach
to changing driving
behavior, and instead promoted
road design concepts
More speed cameras are coming to Coney Island school zones.
in order to deter drivers from
speeding.
“In the school zones, are
there opportunities for things
like speed humps or curb extensions
or other things that
would naturally slow the
speed of drivers,” he said.
“Have those things been
looked at?”
A Brooklyn-based traffi
c attorney called the speed
camera program a procedural
moneymaker for the city, as
the $50 tickets didn’t present
enough monetary fi nes for a
violator to fi ght it.
“I’m a traffi c attorney and
I don’t fi ght them when I get
them,” James Medows said.
“It’s just the cost of doing business
in New York City.”
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