So I read in Newsday on Friday that Nassau’s latest batch of 50 cameras for 2011 are stuck at the State Assembly. The main reason is that many Assembly members don’t seem to like the idea that Managano’s emphasis is on money and revenue generation as opposed to public safety. Some other useful info from the article:
- Nassau made $10.3 million dollars last year on red light camera tickets, and hopes to make $47 million this year.
- The locations of the 50 new cameras for 2011 haven’t been finalized yet.
This comes as a surprise to me, mainly because in the past week or so I’ve added 5 new cameras in Nassau County. Four of them were submitted by visitors using the ‘Add a New Camera‘ link, and the fifth was added by me. It’s quite possible that the 4 submitted by visitors were there all along and I missed them, I don’t drive in those areas of Nassau too often so I wouldn’t know where the cameras are. Or maybe those cameras aren’t really red light cameras but they’re something else, I don’t know. But the one I added (Underhill Boulevard and Jericho in Syosset) is definitely the same as all the other red light cameras on Long Island and was definitely not there before – I drive through that intersection every day for the past few years and I never saw it before.
So either it’s from Nassau’s original batch of 50, which could only be possible if they didn’t use them all, or if they moved one from some other intersection to here. Or, it’s from the new batch of 50, which is exactly what I thought when I first saw it. But now we’re hearing that the new batch is stalled in the State Assembly.
So the question is, did Nassau start putting up new cameras before getting 100% approval?
Here are the five new Nassau Cameras I added in the past week or two:
- Syosset – Jericho Turnpike and Underhill Boulevard
- Manhasset – Shelter Rock Road and Northern Boulevard
- Rockville Centre – Peninsula Boulevard and Lakeview Avenue
- Jericho – Jericho Turnpike and Brush Hollow Road
- Hicksville – N Broadway and Nevada Street