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Beginning September 22, 2026, motorists who speed through active construction zones on MTA bridges a55353865855_9c95dc9e43_o-e1790365088647nd tunnels can face automated fines under New York’s expanded Automated Work Zone Speed Enforcement Program.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority began operating work-zone speed cameras at its bridges and tunnels earlier this summer, initially issuing warnings. Drivers are now subject to fines when a vehicle is recorded traveling more than 10 miles per hour above the posted speed limit in an active work zone.

The enforcement program covers construction and maintenance zones at MTA Bridges and Tunnels facilities, including the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Throgs Neck Bridge, Queens Midtown Tunnel and Hugh L. Carey Tunnel, among others.

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The building where the deadly collapse occuredA fatal construction accident in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, has placed the spotlight squarely on the property owner’s failure to maintain a safe structure. Following the collapse of a parapet wall that killed a 58-year-old worker, New York City Department of Buildings (DOB) inspectors documented severe façade defects at the one-story garage located at 113 Sunnyside Avenue.

The Deadly Collapse

The accident occurred just before 3 p.m. on Tuesday, when the worker was struck in the back by a collapsing parapet wall while on the roof of the garage, which shares a lot with a six-story building at 224 Highland Boulevard. Emergency responders removed him from the roof using an aerial ladder, but he was pronounced dead at Brookdale Hospital.

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