{"id":229862,"date":"2025-09-15T23:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229862\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:05:09","slug":"speed-cameras-on-broad-street-in-philadelphia-go-live-in-effort-to-curb-deadly-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/229862\/","title":{"rendered":"Speed cameras on Broad Street in Philadelphia go live in effort to curb deadly crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Parking Authority began using speed cameras<\/a> on Monday along one of the city’s most dangerous corridors<\/a> in an effort to reduce crashes and save lives.<\/p>\n

Speed cameras have been installed at 15 locations from North to South Broad Street to catch drivers going over the 25-mile-per-hour speed limit.<\/p>\n

“I think the speed cameras are a good thing,” David Brown, from North Philadelphia, said. “Something needs to change because it’s not getting no safer out here.”<\/p>\n

For the next 60 days, violators will receive warnings. Tickets will be issued starting Nov. 14.<\/p>\n

“Over the last five years, 64 people have died in crashes on Broad Street,” Mayor Cherelle Parker said.<\/p>\n

“I’m told that’s more than one life per month,” she added. “That data is totally unacceptable to me.”<\/p>\n

Once enforcement begins, fines will be issued based on how far over the speed limit a driver is caught: $100 for going 11 to 19 miles per hour over, $125 for 20 to 29 mph over and $150 for anyone driving 30 mph or more over the limit.<\/p>\n

“My question is what are they doing with all this money, because these streets are horrible,” Brown said.<\/p>\n

According to the PPA, revenue from the tickets goes into a statewide transportation fund that cities and towns across Pennsylvania can apply to for safety and infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n

But Corinne O’Connor, deputy director of the PPA, said the focus isn’t on revenue, but rather on safety.<\/p>\n

“After speed cameras were installed on Route 1, Roosevelt Boulevard<\/a>, speeding decreased by 95% and accidents and major injuries did decrease on that 11-mile an hour thoroughfare,” O’Connor said.<\/p>\n

Still, some people aren’t convinced Broad Street will see the same results.<\/p>\n

“You can’t stop nobody from speeding,” Noah Channer, of North Philadelphia, said. “But it’s going to help when the holidays come and the Eagles win.”<\/p>\n

For now, only warnings will be issued. But when the 60-day grace period ends, enforcement begins. If the program works, the city says it could expand speed cameras to other high-risk corridors, including Christopher Columbus Boulevard.<\/p>\n

Madeleine Wright<\/a><\/p>\n

Madeleine Wright is a bilingual general assignment reporter for CBS News Philadelphia who is fluent in Spanish. She joined the team in January 2022 and was named the Delaware County reporter in July 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Parking Authority began using speed cameras on Monday along one of the city’s most dangerous corridors…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":229863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,105716,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-229862","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-broad-street","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}