City Council Poised to Pass ‘Home Rule’ Message for Sammy’s Law on Thursday
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On Wednesday, Council Member Jen Gutierrez shared the news that it's going to finally happen.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about speeding
‘Major Victory’: Drivers Getting Nabbed With Fewer Speeding Tickets: City
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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.
Data: Unreadable Plates Soared Last Year, Foiling Speed and Red-Light Cameras
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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.
City Workers Drove Slower in Speed Governor Pilot, But Disabled Cap Hundreds of Times
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A city program putting speed restriction technology on a small number of government vehicles has shown promising results, with drivers speeding rarely and doing less hard braking — but workers can disable the system for 15 seconds at a time.
![Transportation Committee Chair Selvena Brooks-Powers has racked up a lot of speeding tickets on her gray Nissan. [Editor's note: We have diffused the Council member's plate because her office said that showing the plate "puts her and her family at risk."] Photos: Julianne Cuba (main); Gersh Kuntzman (inset)](https://old.nyc.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/selvena-brooks-powers-car-with-SBP-diffused-plate2.jpg?w=312)
Monday’s Headlines: Boxing Day Edition
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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.
Most U.S. Cities Can’t Set Their Own Speed Limits — But Maybe They Should
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Oregon may soon allow cities more leeway to set lower speed limits on dangerous roads — rather than reserving that power for state transportation leaders whose primary interest, historically, has been moving cars as quickly as possible.