ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — Four months after the implementation of school zone speed cameras and a reduction in the city speed limit from 30 to 25 miles per hour in January, Albany is witnessing a notable decrease in speeding violations.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan said the initiative, part of the city’s Vision Zero safety plan, aims to eliminate pedestrian deaths by addressing the “unacceptable level of speeding cars and people blatantly violating school speed zones.”
As of February 7, nearly 64,000 tickets were issued for school zone speeding. In the first five weeks of the cameras being operational in front of Eagle Point Elementary School, over 8,000 tickets were issued…