Credit: NYC DOT
New York City is ramping up its red-light camera program, aiming to quadruple the number of cameras at intersections by the end of the year. On Friday, Department of Transportation (DOT) Commissioner Mike Flynn announced the city will activate cameras at 50 new intersections per week for the next five weeks. Red-light cameras are currently installed at 150 intersections—the maximum previously allowed under law—but state legislation passed in 2024 now permits the expansion to reach the full 600.
Established in the 1990s, New York’s red-light camera program made the city one of the nation’s first to use the technology for traffic enforcement. However, the original law limited the program to 222 cameras at 150 intersections, a cap that has remained in place since 2009, according to Gothamist…