Speed toward this solution

With majorities in both houses of the state Legislature backing an expansion in New York City of cameras proven to reduce dangerous speeding and pedestrian injuries, it should be a foregone conclusion: The current law authorizing them, set to expire next month, must be renewed.

Instead, state Senate leaders are toying with our lives, even while the grieving continues for two toddlers who’d barely had time to live before a motorist who’d racked up violations and should have been sidelined, Dorothy Bruns, mowed them down on March 5.

A failure to reup the cameras would be downright criminal.

Pols in Albany, in fact, should be expanding the number of schools around which cameras are authorized, from a piddling 140 school zones to many more, with flexibility to allow placement at the most dangerous intersections. And ensuring that people who repeatedly blow through them, as Bruns’ vehicle did, are held accountable — rather than being allowed to pay their way to a clean bill of health, with no consequences.

Into the breach steps City Councilman Brad Lander, whose proposed local law would boot or impound repeat-offender vehicles. It’s a very good idea — that would be rendered useless if the cameras go dark.

Republican State Sens. Marty Golden of Brooklyn and Patty Ritchie upstate join every Senate Democrat in backing a more-than-doubling of cameras.

Except that Majority Leader John Flanagan made sure to bottle the bill up in a committee chaired by Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, who proposes only to continue the current too-small system — and then only if the state installs armed guards at schools, among other demands he has leverage to make as a majority-swinging vote.

This is not a game. Games are for kids. Adults are supposed to take proven measures to keep them safe from harm.