More than 200 new speed cameras are coming to New York City and Long Island.
The state’s Senate voted to authorize the cameras Wednesday, two days after the Assembly did. Gov. Andrew Cuomo supports the measure and is expected to sign it into law soon.
The bill would authorize up to 69 cameras in Suffolk County and 56 in Nassau County. New York City already has 20 of the devices and stands to get 120 more.
The cameras would operate during and immediately before and after school activities. Speeders caught by the cameras would be mailed a $50 ticket.
The devices will raise millions of dollars for local governments, though officials including New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio say their motivation is public safety.
(AP)
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Nfgo3—the mayor says this is about safety not revenue. Does this mean we should now expect him to adhere to traffic laws or is he still given a blanket exemption by you and all the upper west side limousine lib hypocrites to speed and ignore all traffic laws?
I am once again called upon to opine on a subject of interest to so many of my fellow citizens. Here is is:
I have previously explained why allowing one vehicle or group of vehicles – the mayor’s limo and his bodyguards’ limos – can be allowed to violate traffic laws without raising the overall level of hazard posed by motor vehicles. To oversimplify: it’s only a few vehicles, and if the rest of us behave, that will substantially lower the hazard of motor vehicles.
And just so you can stop speculating about me, my ancestors left the Upper West Side prior to 1960, when it was a middle-class Jewish neighborhood. Neither I nor my ancestors ride or ever rode in limousines (except to their funerals), and I and my ancestors were never involved in traffic accidents in which, B”H, anyone was injured, no doubt because we observe the traffic laws.
Re Comment no. 2: Hearing no objections, the motion is unanimously approved.