“If this were really about protecting the children, why would it be 24 hours a day?”
His new push will lower 20 mph speed limits in roughly 700 school zones, and establish 100 new 15-mph zones by the end of this year.
Altogether, 15 mph speed limits will come to 800 more school zones – or 1,300 citywide – by the end of 2026, officials said.
The new limits will become official after a 60-day public comment period, officials said.
City Department of Transportation officials will eventually expand the lower speed limits to all 2,300 public and private school locations across the city when Mamdani’s first term ends, the mayor said.
city officials going back decades have supported lowering speed limits to 15 mph, including former Mayor Rudy Giuliani in 1999.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/16/us-news/mayor-zohran-mamdani-will-lower-speed-limits-to-15-mph-in-school-zones-sources/
"Photo Enforced" means money money money!
ReplyDelete15 MPH is de rigeur in most school zones that I have entered over the years. Nothing about which to complain except if o=you are a New Yorker.
ReplyDelete"Nothing about which to complain " then, I hope you reconsider when I point out... it's 24/7-365.
DeleteIn the middle of Xmas break, when no kids have, or will be, around for days, cops will be stationed to enforce a speed limit based on young small people that are not in the area.
This, is stupid.
Why not put cross walks in where people do not cross roads?
How about intersections and stop lights, where there are no cross roads?
See?
Stupid to enforce laws for circumstances which do not exist.
Want to lower the speed limit. and full stops, when kids are there smashing a stop sign switch? OK, they activate some thing that signals their presence to drivers that begins an enforcement. Fine.
But if no one is there, just like damn construction zones, then it's not a damn zone. It's empty road that has no reason to delay drivers