Roosevelt Boulevard Speed Cameras To Start Ticketing Friday

PHILADELPHIA — You've been warned, for 60 days in fact, about speed cameras that will ticket driver zipping along Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia.

Mayor Jim Kenney back in June last year said numerous cameras that clock speeders and issue tickets by mail were being installed on the major thoroughfare.

In early June this year, the Philadelphia Parking Authority issued a 60-day warning period where speeders would not be ticketed via the cameras.

And starting Friday, that warning period is over.

Cameras are located at the following intersections on the boulevard:

• Roosevelt Boulevard and Banks Way;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and F Street;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and Deveraux Street;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and Harbison Avenue;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and Strahle Street;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and Grant Avenue;
• Roosevelt Boulevard and Red Lion Road (near Whitten Street);
• and Roosevelt Boulevard and Southampton Road (near Horning Road)

Fines for speeding along the boulevard are:

• $100 — 11 to 19 miles per hour over the posted speed limit
• $125 — 20 to 29 miles per hour over the posted speed limit
• $150 — 30+ miles per hour over the posted speed limit

Up to three violations may be issued to a single motor vehicle within any 30-minute period. Violations do not add points to a driver's record.

Funds collected will be used to cover the program's costs including equipment, administration, and police officers dedicated to reviewing the violations.

Remaining funds will be used for a transportation safety grants program for things such as intersection safety improvements.

Roosevelt Boulevard is considered a High Injury Network corridor, described as a corridor with the highest rates of fatalities and severe injuries per mile.

The aim of the speed camera program is to improve safety and reduce deaths and serious injuries resulting from speeding, not serve as a generator of revenue.

Between 2013 and 2017, there were 2,695 crashes with 139 people being killed or severely injured on the Boulevard. See details on the Boulevard's crash history here.