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Rapid expansion
Speed cameras will be installed at rate of 40 per
month this year as part of citywide expansion
By Bill Parry
Brooklyn Paper
Before departing on a
presidential campaign swing
through Nevada, Mayor Bill
de Blasio took care of some
city business Friday, announcing
plans for the rapid expansion
of the school zone speed
camera program which Gov.
Andrew Cuomo signed into
law earlier this month.
The city’s Department
of Transportation will begin
installing new cameras
citywide at a rate of 40 per
month through 2019, 60 per
month in 2020, expecting to
reach the law’s maximum 750
school zones by June 2020.
“Our streets are about to
get a lot safer for our children,”
de Blasio said. “We
fought to expand our speed
camera program and we won
in Albany. Now it’s time to
rapidly scale up our program
to save lives and keep our kids
safe.”
Authorized by state law,
the school zone speed camera
program had been in place
since 2014 with data showing
that speeding in areas with
cameras declines more than
60 percent, with more than
80 percent of violators not receiving
a second ticket.
Speed cameras will now
operate year-round on all
weekdays between 6 a.m. until
10 p.m. Previously, cameras
operated during the school’s
active hours. In the coming
months, the installations will
be made in the city’s most
dangerous areas where school
kids are zoned to cross.
“We’re going to be able
to put speed cameras at 750
schools, protect our kids,
protect their lives, ensure
they’re safe,” de Blasio said
on WNYC. “And that’s an expenditure
that will be added
to this budget that literally is
about life and death.”
The late Queens state Sen.
Jose Peralta carried the bill in
The Department of Transportation has begun installing new speed cameras in
the city’s most dangerous school zones, according to Mayor Bill de Blasio.
the upper chamber for years,
but Republicans blocked the
legislation calling it a cash
grab and allowed the program
to expire altogether in
July 2018, forcing de Blasio
and Cuomo to make a rare
collaboration to reinstate the
program just before the start
of the school year.
“New York City has made
so much progress in reducing
traffic fatalities and so
much of that progress can be
credited to the use of speed
cameras, but there are still
far too many areas in the
city that need measures to
make streets safer for pedestrians,”
City Councilman
Donavan Richards, the chairman
of the Committee on
Public Safety, said. “Every
life lost is a tragedy, which
is why it was critical that Albany
renewed and expanded
the program to protect New
Yorkers from the next tragic
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is the right approach to
slow down reckless drivers
as soon as possible.”
The program will continue
to fine any motorist
caught going 10 miles per
hour over the speed limit
receiving a $50 summons.
The new law also mandates
signage that alerts drivers
when they are entering a
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