What’ll it take, John?

It’s been one full day since the state Senate, led by Long Island Republican John Flanagan, let legal authorization lapse for life-saving speed-enforcement cameras around city schools, putting pedestrians, and children especially, in danger of reckless drivers.

Why is New York City at Albany’s mercy in the first place on such basic selfgovernance? Good question, but we are.

A majority of senators, Republicans and Democrats alike, want not only to keep the cameras snapping pictures of offenders’ license plates, but to extend their range and increase their number, as public safety demands. Flanagan, aided and abetted by Democrat-turned-Republican Simcha Felder, refuses to bring his campaigning and vacationing members back for a vote.

What will it take for him to snap out of his slumber: An injury? A death? Let’s hope just a few editorials.