Speed-cam boost

Lead-footed New Yorkers are on notice.

The state Legislature on Tuesday passed a bill that calls for the installation of as many as 2,250 speed cameras in 750 city school zones.

Currently, the city has 140 such cameras in place.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assembly member Deborah Glick, will also expand the hours that the cameras can be used.

The measure, which Gov. Cuomo says he will sign, will allow police to issue tickets from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays.

The previous law allowed them to be in operation only from one hour before schools start to one hour after they end.

“I support speed cameras,” Cuomo said at a press conference Tuesday.

The first speed cameras went up in the city in 2014 and were in operation until last summer, when they were taken offline because legislators failed to pass an extension of the law.

Cuomo and the city came up with a plan that turned the cameras back on in early September.

The city Department of Transportation issued 616,952 speed-camera citations from September 2018 to February of this year, agency officials said.

Transit advocates called the bill a major win.

“We have an epidemic and speed-safety cameras are a huge part of the cure,” said Amy Cohen, founding member of Families for Safe Streets.