{"id":272050,"date":"2026-08-25T18:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272050\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:12:07","slug":"philadelphia-activates-speed-cameras-at-four-schools-to-protect-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272050\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Activates Speed Cameras at Four Schools to Protect Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/957benfm.com\/tag\/Philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> began full enforcement of several school-zone speed cameras beginning on Monday, Aug. 24, at four schools to bolster student safety with the start of a new school year.<\/p>\n<p>High School of the Future: West Girard Avenue (North 39th to North 40th streets)John B. Stetson Middle School: East Allegheny Avenue (A to B streets)Widener Memorial School: West Olney Avenue (North Broad to North 16th streets)William L. Sayre High School: Walnut Street (South 58th to South 59th streets)<\/p>\n<p>These sites were selected using crash data from 2019 to 2023 to address high-risk stretches near schools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur school-zone speed cameras aim to protect students on their way to and from school. It&#8217;s a critical matter of public safety and changing dangerous driving behavior,\u201d said Philadelphia Parking Authority (PPA) Acting Executive Director Gabe Roberts in a statement shared with NBC10. \u201cWe have seen dramatic results with speed enforcement cameras along Roosevelt Boulevard, where speeding has been reduced by a staggering 95% and pedestrian-involved crashes have been reduced by 50%.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia began full enforcement of several school-zone speed cameras beginning on Monday, Aug. 24, at four schools to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-272050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}