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Residents press for enforcement as Glens Falls tests automated speed equipment at Crandall; council vote required to ticket
Summary
Residents urged the Board of Public Safety to act after repeated near-misses and children playing near Crandall and Lincoln streets. Mayor and police said the city has spent about $250,000 on automated speed equipment now in testing; tickets would require a change in city code and a council public hearing.
A resident told the Glens Falls Board of Public Safety on Sept. 10 that drivers routinely run stop signs and speed through the Crandall and Lincoln streets area, putting children at risk and prompting calls for more enforcement. “We have cars that just repeatedly speed and don't even touch the brakes when we put a stop sign,” the resident said during the board’s public-comment period.
The concern came as Mayor (City of Glens Falls) and police officials described new automated enforcement equipment the city has purchased and begun testing. The mayor said the city “spent $250,000 on equipment” intended to capture license plates and speeds and that the device was being tested near Crandall Pond.
The testing is part of a multistep process the board said would lead to automated enforcement only after the common council adopts the required local code change. “We have to then it'll go to the council. There'll be a public hearing,” the mayor said, adding that enforcement — ticketing rather than just…
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