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The city finally won approval for a limited speed camera program in June after a long battle in Albany,and City Mayor Bloomberg announced on Monday that starting Sept.9,the city will _1_ 20 cameras in school zones around the city, despite _2_ from police unions to the pilot program.
Officials won’t _3_ where exactly the cameras will go—hoping to maximize the warning effect on speeding from the cameras—and plan to move them around _4_ between different schools. But they’ve _5_ 100 schools in all five boroughs where at least 75% of cars speed and plan to target the schools with the worst speeding problems.
The cameras, which will be _6_ to drivers, will catch motorists going at least 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. Drivers will be hit with $50 fines, though officials will give out warnings for the first few weeks of the program.
Statistics show a child hit by a car going 40 miles per hour faces a 70% chance of being killed, while a kid hit at 30 miles per hour has an 80% chance of _7_. “Speeding continues to be the _8_ killer on the streets of New York，” said Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. “It is _9_ that New York City’s speed limit is 30 miles an hour. Going even ten miles over the speed limit is the difference between life and death.”
Bloomberg said he’d prefer a less _10_ speed camera program and hope to expand it soon. “We’d like to have more than twenty, but we’re glad to start with what we have,” he said.
A) identified
B) install
C) disclose
D) mission
E) leading
F) objection
G) surviving
H) restricted
I) affiliate
J) invisible
K) simultaneously
L)frequently
M) stake
N) miserable
O) sensible
