PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Starting Monday, automated speed cameras will be activated on Broad Street in the city’s latest Vision Zero effort.
A total of 30 speed cameras have been installed at 15 different intersections of Broad Street from Cheltenham Avenue in the north to the Navy Yard in the south. Drivers going 11 miles an hour over the 25 mile per hour speed limit will be issued warnings for the first 60 days after activation. After those 60 days, violators will be mailed $100 fines.
The effort is supervised by the Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA), and Executive Director Rich Lazer said the camera locations along Broad Street were identified by crash data.
“Everything we did in collaboration with the city was based off of data so we could make the best,” he said. “We weren't just plopping them up. We did it based on where the accidents were happening and where fatalities were happening.”
The new Broad Street cameras come five years after a first slate of automated cameras were installed along Roosevelt Boulevard, which officials said has seen a 95% drop in speeding and a 35% drop in fatal or serious crashes.
“Roosevelt Boulevard itself is really a testament,” said Lazer. “The numbers are there.”
The installation of speed cameras is also set to expand in the near future with Route 13 through Philadelphia as the next targeted roadway. Officials said intersections on Baltimore Avenue, Girard Avenue and Frankford Avenue will be next to get speed cameras.