Daily News | Speeding tickets and crashes fell after enforcement cameras came to Roosevelt Blvd.
Traffic moves along on the Roosevelt Boulevard under the surveillance of a speed camera near Banks Way.Traffic on Roosevelt Boulevard has slowed notably over the nearly two years that automatic cameras have been enforcing speed limits on the 12-lane thoroughfare, which runs from the Schuylkill to the Bucks County line, Philadelphia Parking Authority data show.
“We’re seeing something that has succeeded better than we could have hoped for,” said Christopher Puchalsky, policy director for Philadelphia’s Office of Transportation, Infrastructure and Sustainability.Speeding violations tumbled 91.4% from June 1, 2020, when cameras were activated, through November 2021, the PPA, which runs the enforcement program, said in its second annual report recently filed with Gov. Tom Wolf and the legislature.
Data on the speed-camera program were unveiled at an April 30 traffic safety conference organized at Temple University by the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia to discuss “Vision Zero” policies that aim to eliminate traffic deaths. Mayor JimSo far, serious crashes and traffic fatalities have declined on Roosevelt Boulevard relative to Philadelphia streets without enforcement cameras, according to a University of Pennsylvania researcher analyzing the effects of the speed surveillance.
Crash fatalities decreased by 17% on the Boulevard but rose by 81% on other major arterial roads, based on average monthly police tallies in 2019 and from the beginning of the camera program through 2021.
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