The mayor made the announcement Friday morning at Public School 199 on Manhattan's Upper West Side, surrounded by families who have lost relatives in traffic accidents.
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Over the next two years, de Blasio said, the Department of Transportation will substantially scale up its speed camera program, installing new cameras citywide at a rate of about 40 per month through 2019, and 60 per month in 2020.
By June 2020, the city expects to reach the maximum 750 school zones allowed by a law recently passed in Albany.
Right now 290 school zone speed cameras are in place.
The mayor announced a public education campaign would alert New York City drivers of these major changes to the law.
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A recent Department of Transportation report showed the use of speed cameras in school zones led to a 63 percent drop in speeding and a decrease in crashes in those areas.
Friday's announcement was nearly overshadowed by a health scare for Rep. Jerry Nadler.
Nadler gave brief remarks during the event, but fell ill as the event was wrapping up.
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