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Why Hasn't Cuomo Installed More Speed Cameras In NYC?
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Mar 27, 2014
Modified Mar 27, 2014
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Though Governor Cuomo has proposed the installation of speed cameras near schools in Long Island, he has not extended the same proposal to NYC—now, the de Blasio administration is petitioning Cuomo to include a provision for speed cameras in his budget.
Though the State Senate and Assembly passed a bill mandating speed cameras be installed in city school zones last year, only 20 cameras have been installed thus far. De Blasio, who has made the installation of speed cameras a part of his Vision Zero initiative, wants Albany to install 160 more cameras in school zones citywide; he also wants the governor to expand NYC's control over the cameras, since Albany's laws limit on which streets the cameras can be installed.
Last month, Cuomo proposed a plan to install a camera at each of the 125 school districts in Nassau and Suffolk Counties on Long Island. City Hall has reportedly contacted the governor requesting funds be allocated for speed cameras in the city, but the requests have not been approved, according to Capital New York.
Streetsblog notes that not only does the city have too few speed cameras, but Albany has placed restrictions on the hours in which the cameras can operate. The cameras are in use starting one hour before the beginning of the school day begins to one hour after afternoon school activities end; data shows the majority of fatal speeding car crashes happen outside of those hours.
When NYC's first 20 speed cameras were installed in January, they ticketed 900 speeding drivers in the first two weeks.
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