Williamsburg, NY – Despite a horrific crash that killed a young couple and their newborn son on Sunday, speeding continues on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn.
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NBC 4 New York’s I-Team (http://bit.ly/WGKaX5) in conjunction with the non-profit, Transportation Alternatives, took to the streets yesterday, radar gun in hand, and found continued rampant speeding violations on Kent Avenue, just yards away from the sight of the crash.
“The speed limit’s 30 miles an hour for a reason,” said Juan Martinez, from Transportation Alternatives. “It’s about public safety. But a lot of drivers don’t respect that speed limit, and on a street like this it has deadly consequences.”
Police say the driver of the BMW the hit the livery car carrying the couple Sunday was driving at least 60 miles an hour—double the limit.
The I-Team reports that in 2009, the city Transportation Dept. cited a study showing 69% of northbound vehicles, and 77% of southbound vehicles violate the 30 mph on Kent Avenue. And that despite persistent speeding, NYPD records show that officers in the 90th precinct wrote ‘zero’ speeding tickets in December and January.
The 2012 average for speeding tickets in the district was 6 per month, according to NYPD records.
“What we don’t have in the city is predictable, consistent, city-wide enforcement of the speed limit,” said Martinez.
“We have red light cameras in the city that have saved hundreds of lives,” said Martinez. “What we need is speed camera enforcement in the city.”
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But the bike lanes caused the accident, not the speeding. Not the cell phones in the hand. Not the total disengagement from the act of driving a car. Not the other distractions that a driver must attend to while driving. It was the bike lanes.
Hashem yirachem un alle krenk a refuah shleima be’korov.
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Check out the one way left onto Kent at Clymer: Always TWO lanes making a left turn onto a one-lane road. Never a cop there to stop it. The “Right on Red” sign out of the Navy Yard was pulled, but cars still make that right on red. No cops. If they put traffic lights between the Yard and the BQE, they’ll just BLOW by them.
Another way for the city to make money by putting up these speeding cameras, the fact is that the red light cameras increased accidents, becouse drivers are nervous & shortstop therby cousing chain reaction accidents & never mind that everybody in the car goes flying. Those city tattes will never learn, deadly accidends will always happen as long as humans drive, no camera in the world will prevent that, those camers only make every driver on the road to be nervous, causing the driver not to be able to function on the road properly.
Very deceptive report. Transportation Alternatives is an organization of bicycle advocates who oppose cars. Although a high percentage of cars exceede the 30 MPH limit they fail to mention that most are 5mph -9mph over the limit. Speed enforcement is done by the Highway Unit, not usually by precinct cops who don’t carry radar guns.
The fact is, speeding is dangerous, and should not be not.
The police are out there to save people’s lives.
Red light cameras and speeding cameras make people slow down, and stop for red light, and they also carry no points to the driver’s license.
However if they are not paid, the registration on the car can be suspended.
The city needs less parking tickets, and more read tickets like DWI and reckless driving.
If this guy was going 65 mph on Kent, no speed enforcement camera will stop him.
Oh goodie y’all not only have red light cameras (banned here via referendum), y’all are about to get speeding cameras too! Best of luck y’all!
What did you expect? Coney Island Ave. is 30 mph! Who drives 30mph on C.I. Ave.? They go 80 mph and go through the light!!
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If he pays every time he drives 65 on that street, he will stop after the 3rd time.
Or he won 217;t pay, and gets arrested for driving on a suspended license.