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‘Major Victory’: Drivers Getting Nabbed With Fewer Speeding Tickets: City
The city’s speed cameras are spitting out less tickets to drivers than they were six months ago, Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez said — and that's good.
March 17, 2023
Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras
The problem of cars evading speed, red-light and bus-lane cameras with defaced or covered plates has gotten markedly worse — with more than 7 percent of plates that triggered automated enforcement cameras last summer proving to be unreadable.
February 13, 2023
Highways to Hell: Now Mayor Adams Needs to Advocate for Speed Cameras on Expressways
The only part of New York's traffic system that has lately gotten more deadly instead of less is highway driving. The solution is simple, but prohibited. Mayor Adams needs to work to change that.
January 26, 2023
Monday’s Headlines: Boxing Day Edition
The biggest story of the holiday weekend dropped on Friday when Gothamist became the latest outlet to notice that a car belonging to Council Transportation Committee Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers continues to be caught by city speed cameras at a rate that's well past shrugging off.
December 26, 2022
CM Bottcher: City Must Publicly Report on Plate-Covering Perps
The Council member wants to require the Department of Transportation to issue monthly reports detailing how many times a city speed or red-light camera was foiled because a driver had defaced or covered his or her plate.
September 29, 2022
Trump-Loving Anti-Camera Pol Has 23 School-Zone Speeding Tickets!
Council Member Inna Vernikov's car has been slapped with 23 camera-issued tickets since mid-2020, including nine this year, which may explain why she voted against speed cameras.
September 15, 2022
Queens Pol Voted Against Speed Cameras — And Has 27 Speeding Tickets!
Council Member Joann Ariola has racked up 48 violations on her SUV since 2017, including a whopping 27 for speeding in school zones and two for blowing through red lights.
September 9, 2022
Hochul Signs Speed Camera Bill, Citing Streetsblog’s Coverage of Unsafe School Streets
The city's speed cameras will no longer stop issuing tickets at 10 p.m. but will stay on the job 24-7-365, thanks to Gov. Hochul affixing her signature on the bill re-authorizing and expanding the automated enforcement.
June 24, 2022
THE ALBANY REPORT: A Historic, Yet Deeply Disappointing, Glass-Half-Empty Legislative Session
"This is four-dimensional chess," said one lawmaker. "We're negotiating with the Council, with both houses of the legislator and with the executive. To play four-dimensional chess with new and novel pieces was difficult."
June 6, 2022
Anatomy of a Sausage: How a Great Bill Got Gutted in Albany’s Mediocrity Factory
The result, though, is a watered-down bill that shelved tools to rein in reckless drivers that its sponsors Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assembly Member Deborah Glick said would be transformative.
May 23, 2022
