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Nassau comptroller raises the idea of speed cameras on LIE

September 2, 2016 By Celeste Hadrick   celeste.hadrick@newsday.com

Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in Mineola on Nassau County Comptroller George Maragos in Mineola on Oct. 8, 2014. (Credit: Howard Schnapp)

Complaints about Nassau’s wildly unpopular speed cameras in school zones died down after the county legislature ended the program in late 2014, but County Comptroller George Maragos may be revving up the controversy again.

Maragos posted on Twitter and his Facebook page this week that something needs to be done about the many fatal accidents on the Long Island Expressway.

“Perhaps speed cameras on the LIE?” he asked on Facebook. ‘Perhaps #LIE speed cameras?” he tweeted.

 

Maragos spokeswoman Carla Hall D’Ambra termed it “an emotional response to this terrible news. Every day in the paper are these deaths that are almost always related to speed.”

Maragos said in a statement, “Something needs to be done to stop the almost weekly accidents on the LIE. Speed enforcement options should be considered, including speed cameras, via a public hearing.”

Really? Speed Cameras?

“There may be other ideas,” Maragos added.

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I cannot see how it would help eliminate the incidents, but I can see where it would help to apprehend the speeders. Perhaps he is thinking the fear of being caught on camera will slow down drivers. Don't think so...

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school zone cameras did slow down a lot of drivers, and

red-light cameras are cutting down the number of people who run red lights.

I think it will work, but

the worst offenders will complain to their politicians about a "money grab".

Screw them, when they speed, make them pay.

We have drivers going 90 or 100 mph or sometimes more.



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Too many cameras.

You can't go anywhere without being watched.

Big brother is not your friend.

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