Daily News | Speed cameras are saving lives and should stay | Editorial
in Pennsylvania for the first time in 2016, and they were finally installed on Roosevelt Boulevard in June 2020.. Not only is speeding down 91% since the start of the program, the type of high-speed drag racing that killed Banks and her children has also decreased.
Speed camera opponents such as the National Motorists Association often claim speed is irrelevant to traffic safety, but research by Erick Guerra, a University of Pennsylvania urban planning professor, found that collisions on the Boulevard since speed cameras were installed fell by 17%, despite an 81% increase in collisions elsewhere in the city during the same period.
Guerra estimates that at least eight lives were saved because of the cameras. Fines from the cameras, which have declined by over 90% since the first few months of operation, go to thegrant program, which reinvests the funds in street safety projects across the commonwealth. The Philadelphia Parking Authority, which administers the program, touts it as a part of its new focus on quality-of-life issues and
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