New York City has hit its state-imposed maximum of 600 intersections with red-light cameras, beating Mayor Mamdani’s promise of reaching the benchmark by the end of the year. Few policies can be so directly tied to saving lives and it’s an outrage that the city needs the approval of the state Legislature for this program and that the cameras at all 600 intersections expire on Dec. 1, 2027.

Every time that City Hall wants to improve street safety, the mayor has to go hat in hand to Albany to ask pretty please to save lives and slow down traffic. That is how the cameras were expanded from a maximum of 150 intersections with red-light cameras, though it remains a relative drop in the bucket in a city that has close to 14,000 intersections with traffic lights.

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