Brace yourself. A lot more speed cameras are coming to New York City streets. Say cheese!

[Will the nation’s largest urban network of speed cameras make the city safer or “one big speed trap?”]

What’s happening

More speed cameras are coming in nearly every neighborhood in an effort to enforce the speed limit (which is 25 miles per hour on most streets).

When the expansion is completed, there will be more than 2,000 cameras.

And camera hours will more than double: They will operate year-round, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. every weekday.

The result will be the nation’s largest urban network of automated speed cameras, The Times’s Winnie Hu reported.

Why now?

Instead of simply renewing the speed camera program, the Democratic lawmakers who control state government voted to make it far more expansive.