ALBANY, N.Y. ( NEWS10 ) – Thousands of drivers in the City of Albany have been issued more than 13,000 tickets by the new speed cameras in school zones. On Tuesday Mayor Kathy Sheehan reminded drivers speed limits will be reduced citywide come the new year.
Albany has implemented many traffic calming measures like speed humps, red light traffic cameras and more recently those school zone cameras. But come January 1 most roads in the city will drop to 25 MPH.
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“These are all measures to ensure that people recognize how important it is to slow down,” said Sheehan.
The mayor said although advocates had called on the city to reduce speed limits they didn’t have the authority to. That was until they lobbied the state legislature to change the law.
“We got the authority to reduce the speed limit. We did the study that was required by the state and we found that most of our streets we can lower that speed limit to 25 MPH,” said Sheehan.