Drivers will soon have another reason to slow down on Broad Street, as Philadelphia officials prepare to expand the city’s speed camera program.
Fourteen new automated speed enforcement cameras will be stationed along Broad Street, from 7000 Old York Road to Pattison Avenue. City leaders consider it one of the city’s busiest and most dangerous stretches of road.
The cameras will issue fines to drivers traveling 11 miles per hour or more over the posted speed limit.
The expansion follows the success of speed cameras on Roosevelt Boulevard, where city officials say violations dropped by 95% and pedestrian-involved crashes decreased by about 50%…