New York has used red light cameras since the 1990s and plans to deploy them to 600 intersections this year.
New York City will quadruple the number of red light cameras over the next 10 months, bringing automated traffic enforcement to a total of 600 intersections.
As Ramsey Khalifeh explains in Gothamist, the city was one of the first in the United States to install traffic cameras in the 1990s. The original program limited the city to 222 cameras at 150 intersections — a number that has not changed since 2009. A 2024 law allows the city to install them at as many as 600 intersections.
According to Khalifeh, “Transportation department spokesperson Vin Barone declined to disclose where the new cameras would be installed, saying the program is more effective when their locations are kept a secret. He said the technology will target areas with high rates of crashes.”
Red light cameras have reduced T-bone crashed by 65 percent and rear-end collisions by 49 percent, according to DOT.
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