Don�t even think of speeding in Manhattan Beach.

With New York�s expanded school speed zone camera program taking effect July 11th , Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz (D-Brooklyn) has successfully appealed to the city�s Department of Transportation (DOT) to bring a second mobile speed camera to Manhattan Beach, where speeding near several schools has posed a persistent danger.

As per the expanded speed camera law, which Assemblyman Cymbrowitz multi- sponsored in the Assembly, the new camera will operate year-round on weekdays between
6 a.m. and 10 p.m., including summer and school vacations. Previously, the cameras could only operate during a given school�s active hours.

Three years ago, at the community�s request, Assemblyman Cymbrowitz helped Manhattan Beach secure a mobile speed camera, which was successful in slowing down
area drivers. DOT subsequently installed a permanent camera on Shore Boulevard. �Unfortunately, this season has brought a lot of speeding cars and reports of drag racing in the area,� Assemblyman Cymbrowitz said. �While NYPD added more units, marked and unmarked, to ticket speeding drivers, I believe that having additional cameras is important because such sustained enforcement isn�t possible.�

Even with the ticketing blitz, the speeding issue has persisted, the lawmaker said.

�Manhattan Beach is one of the few local thoroughfares in the city that has almost half-mile stretches of roadway uncontrolled by any traffic device and is also within a short distance of an elementary school (P.S.195), a college (Kingsborough) and high school (Leon Goldstein), in addition to a number of summer camps and preschools,� Assemblyman Cymbrowitz said. �For thousands of children and adults each day, the danger is real.�

When fully implemented, the new speed camera law will expand the maximum number of school speed zones from 140 to 750 and will cover a quarter-mile radius from every school. Since the program�s launch in 2014, speeding at locations with cameras has decreased by more than 60 percent.

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