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Mayor: Urban Racers Prove Cameras' Need

By CRYSTAL LEWIS
Posted 8/20/18

Within two weeks of the expiration of the speed camera program in more than a hundred school zones, 132,000 motorists were caught driving at least 10 miles above the speed limit, which increased the urgency to extend the law allowing the cameras’ use, Mayor de Blasio contended.

“It’s astounding how many people speed when they think they can get away with it,” he told Errol Louis on NY1’s Inside City Hall Aug 13. “People have to face consequences, they have to know that if they are speeding where there may be children crossing the street to school, that something is going to happen.” 

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