Broad Street had 169 crashes in which people were killed or seriously injured, 165 speed-related collisions, and 465 pedestrians who were struck from 2018 to 2022, PennDot statistics show.
People cross Roosevelt Boulevard at Grant Avenue. A state study recommends expanding speed cameras statewide. The Boulevard cameras would have expired last Dec. 31, but the Pennsylvania legislature approved them permanently.
The technology clocks vehicle speeds, much as radar does, and it captures images of the car’s license plate so that violators can be ticketed.will administer the program, as it does on the Boulevard. The timeline for installing the system is not yet firm. “Through this work, I have learned that we have been taught to think accidents are unavoidable incidents, but they are crashes, and they can be avoided,” said Nicole Brunet, policy director for the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia, which works on traffic safety issues. “These cameras have been proven to save one life every month that they’ve been on the Boulevard.”
Council Member Jeffery Young, who represents the 5th District in North Philadelphia, pushed OTIS during Monday’s committee meeting to detail an advertising and education campaign as soon as possible. OTIS gathered data on driver travel patterns and concluded that the corridors proposed for automated speed-enforcement are most heavily used for commutes rather than local trips.
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