Mayor Mamdani’s Department of Transportation is seeing red.
DOT on Friday announced plans to finally expand the number of locations in the city with red light cameras from 150 to 600 — more than a year after Gov. Hochul signed state legislation enabling the agency to so. Gothamist, amNY and PIX11 all covered the news, but no one really asked why the Adams administration had never taken advantage of the state-granted power.
In any event, new city government officials will turn on 50 new locations per week over the next five weeks, with the rest coming online by the end of the year.
DOT lobbied Albany to get the sorely needed expansion passed back in 2024, and Gov. Hochul signed the law in October of that year…