UPDATE: 24/7 speed camera monitoring begins in New York City. AliBaumanTV reports.
But the mayor who seemingly never sleeps said he's not satisfied with the program. He wants it expanded to traffic hot spots, not just school zones.
Amy Cohen, co-founder of the group Families for Safe Streets, has been advocating for this since 2013, when her 12-year-old son, Sammy, was hit and killed by a car in Brooklyn."After these eight years, why have you never give up this fight to make this change?" CBS2's Ali Bauman asked. Now that the speed cameras are up and running, Albany lawmakers say the next step is to greatly increase the number of red-light cameras.
Gounardes added,"I want to start with at least 1,300. That would give us about 10 percent of the intersections in New York City covered. There's 13,000 intersections in the city. Why should only 1 percent of them be covered with a red-light camera? Speeding, running red lights, taking turns quickly, all of these things contribute to fatalities."
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