Ridgites, citywide officials push for speed camera legislation
City and school officials convened in front of P.S. 264, the Bay Ridge Elementary School for the Arts, on Monday, June 18 to urge Albany to move on a bill that would greenlight hundreds of new speed cameras near 150 school zones, while also preserving the few there now.
There are currently speed cameras in 140 school zones – a portion, the mayor’s administration says, that covers just seven percent of city schools – but the program, launched in 2014, is set to expire this summer.
The new bill would expand on that initiative. However, despite passing the Assembly, and having bipartisan support in the state Senate and a whopping 33 co-sponsors, the legislature has yet to reach the floor where only 32 votes are needed to pass it.