“I feel reasonably confident that the legislature is going to renew the speed camera program, and at a minimum extend the hours to operate 24/7,” said state Sen. Gounardes. “And we’re still discussing ways to crack down recidivist drivers.”
have called on lawmakers to give New York City “home rule,” which would allow the city to decide how many speed cameras should be placed in the city and how they should operate — as well as setting the speed limit — but that doesn’t appear to have any substantive support from lawmakers in Albany.
Currently, according to the New York State constitution, those types of decisions are made by state lawmakers in the Assembly and Senate, not local municipalities. There have been 39 pedestrians and three cyclists killed so far this year on city streets, which is about the same number as this time last year, according to the city Department of Transportation. However, there’s a major uptick in drivers killed, with 28 fatalities compared to 15 last year at this time. The DOT said this is indicative of the dangerous driving on city streets. The remaining fatalities in this year's tally involved other motorized vehicles such as motorcycles.
“We need every tool available to us to save lives and fight the rise in reckless drivers,” Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said at a City Council hearing Thursday. The DOT said it had also hoped the state Legislature would allow the city to install cameras in bike lanes that ticket vehicles that park there, and expand the number of red light cameras. Currently, cameras that automatically ticket vehicles that run red light cameras can operate at 1 percent of city intersections, per legislation in Albany. That works out to
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