STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The New York City Department of Transportation has begun expanding the city\u2019s red light camera network.<\/p>\n
On Friday, the DOT announced that it had activated additional red light cameras at intersections around the city, and has plans to turn on more.<\/p>\n
The transportation agency will activate 50 red light cameras a week for the next five weeks, adding 250 intersections to the camera network before the end of February.<\/p>\n
Previously, New York City had a hard cap on the number of red light cameras it could operate, with only 150 allowed under state law.<\/p>\n
That changed in October 2024, when Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation to extend New York City\u2019s red light camera program through Dec. 1, 2027<\/a>. <\/p>\n The legislation also allowed New York City to add an additional 450 intersections to the red light program, bringing the total number of cameras allowed to 600.<\/p>\n The city transportation agency said it will expand the red light cameras to all 600 intersections allowed under the new state law by the end of 2026. <\/p>\n According to a DOT press release, additional cameras will be placed at intersections in the five boroughs \u201cbased on criteria including crash history.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cRed light running is one of the most dangerous behaviors on our city\u2019s streets and puts all New Yorkers at risk. That is why we are taking immediate action to ramp up the city\u2019s red light camera program,\u201d DOT Commissioner Mike Flynn said in a statement.<\/p>\n According to the DOT, there is a 73% reduction in red light running at intersections with a camera installed.<\/p>\n \u201cThese cameras have reduced red light running 73 percent in the intersections where they are installed, and we will pair this heightened enforcement with ambitious street redesigns to make our streets safer,\u201d Flynn continued.<\/p>\n In 2025, red light cameras on Staten Island issued more than 50,808 tickets<\/a>, according to publicly available camera violation records<\/a> on the city\u2019s Open Data page.<\/p>\n Since these tickets typically carry a $50 fine, Staten Islanders were issued over $2.5 million in fines throughout 2025.<\/p>\n The data reflects all red light camera violations that have been issued on Staten Island from Jan. 1 to Nov. 21, 2025, the most up-to-date information available at publication.<\/p>\n Eight cameras alone issued 26,358 tickets, representing over $1.3 million in summonses, according to the data. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 The New York City Department of Transportation has begun expanding the city\u2019s red light…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-98635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}