New York, NY – For many New York City drivers, the cadences of the common speeding ticket can be unfamiliar. Rare is the need to haggle with a police officer, pleading to be let off with a warning, or presenting the pregnant wife as Exhibit A in a bid for lenience. Rarer is the stretch of urban streetscape where an officer might safely approach an offending vehicle, as he would on a highway shoulder.
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Under a proposal now gaining traction in Albany, though, New Yorkers may soon be answering to an authority more suited to the city’s topography: cameras that record the speed of a passing car and issue violations automatically.
Though similar programs have already been put into effect for red-light and bus-lane violations in the city, the bill could signal a sweeping shift for drivers accustomed to a city whose traffic laws can be hard to enforce, cutting against an ethos of getting from here to there as quickly as possible.
The proposal initially calls for as many as 40 cameras to be mounted high across the city, of which 20 can be rotated, ensuring that drivers are never certain when their speed is being tracked.
Only those who exceed the city’s speed limit, typically 30 miles per hour, by more than 10 miles per hour would be given tickets, receiving a $50 fine. For those who exceed the limit by more than 30 m.p.h., the fine doubles to $100. Drivers would not be docked points on their licenses.
excellent
anything to drive revenue. this city makes me sick to my stomach.
There not worried about our speeding and our life safety ! It all comes to cash again! keep going communist America!!!
Life in this city continues its spiral downwards. After eliminating the X29 Express Bus, the M train going to Southern Brooklyn, cutting service on countless subway and bus lines, now this. Virtually, no one travels 30 mph on many stretches of city roads. Between Red Light Cameras and live speed traps, and now automated speed trap cameras, no one is going to travel anywhere and even more businsses will close.
This is a good idea. If people go above 30 by a bit and get fined it would be ridiculous. But those that go 40 should be stopped and punished! They take others lives in their hands.
Anyone know if a Jammer would help in this case? I assume that yes the same way it works with the regular radars…. Go get em!
Imagine the camera catches you drinking a big soda you get double fined
I can’t understand the intransigent attitude by some on this board, pertaining to automobile safety and obeying the traffic laws. Driving is not a right, but a priviledge. When a motorist is granted a driver’s license by any of the states, he/she has entered into a binding contract, which essentially states that all traffic laws shall be obeyed. Obeying traffic laws means driving within the lawfully authorized speed limits, not 10 or 20 miles over it. If one wishes to race their cars, there are many race tracks which can be utilized, in which to practice their racing skills on. Time and time again, it has been documented by the National Safety Council, as well as by accident investigation experts, that speed kills. What is so difficult about observing the traffic laws? As my physics professor used to teach us, for every action, there is a reaction. If motorists wish to speed, they will be ticketed. If they are ticketed, they should not whine, or try to excuse their illegal behavior.
Please explain how will this reduce crime that has gone up recently, or how will this bring back almost a million jobs and over 2 million people that left the city since bloomberg is mayor.
Maybe we should rather slow down a litlle on the local streets and get off the phones (talking and texting) so we won’t have so many accidents.
Our streets are be”h full and people think that they are on a race track. Total disregard to the law and to humanity(mentschlechkeit).
Guys leave new york before its too late. see whats coming and leave, we need to get out of his hell hole of a city
If you obey the law and do not endanger innocent people, cameras at every light would not matter to you. My friend, nebech, was killed by someone trying to get through a red light that had already changed.
They cant give you points because they do not know who is driving- if you lend your car to a friend and he/she speeds- you will ge the ticket- same as a red light camera. And who is going to calibrate these camera to make sure speed recording is accurate?