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Province may ban photo radar after Brampton spent millions on cameras, ticket-processing centre. (www.bramptonguardian.com)
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Mayor Patrick Brown said he’s talked with the premier. Brampton has 185 photo radar cameras deployed.

The City of Brampton has spent millions of dollars going all-in on automated speed enforcement (ASE) technology and now Premier Doug Ford says his government might ban it.

On Tuesday (Sep. 9), Ford told reporters that he wants municipalities to voluntarily remove their ASE cameras — otherwise known as photo radar — or the province might ban them.

“It’s just a tax grab. They should take out those cameras — all of them,” Ford said. “Hopefully, the cities will get rid of them … or I’m going to help them get rid of them very shortly.”

Kralt told council that the cameras had reduced average driving speeds in six study areas by between 13 and 26 km/h, while increasing speed limit compliance by up to 85 per cent.

There are two petitions currently active for and against.

Link to petition posted on change.org, urging the city to keep the cameras. https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-speed-cameras-in-brampton

Link to petition posted on change.org, urging the city to remove the cameras. https://www.change.org/p/ditch-the-speed-cameras-petition-for-immediate-removal-in-brampton-ontario

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I was going down Huntclub in Ottawa at 4:30am to get my friend to the airport for a 6am flight. For a visual, it was down just west of Conroy. The road switches to a 60 zone from an 80kph one but nothing changes, not a damn thing, and I even thought “hey, I really don’t want a problem right now so I’m gunna do 79kph in this 80kph zone. Oh hey a speed camera, I wonder if people have been doing 100+kph down he-“ and then a flash. They want a $120 for that so I requested a trial.

The other one was in the Glebe. This road that is 5 cars wide without any paint is a 30kph zone, now, and so I’m going 45 in what I thought was a 40 zone and that we’re all good and boom, away we go with another one. The photo is comical because my little car is just a sea of asphalt and not exactly in a tight place. I paid that one anyway.

Ph, and the time I was doing 114kph in the leftmost lane on the highway coming back from the Brossard Ikea and got nailed there, too!

The speed cameras don’t actually do anything or keep anyone safe since the drivers are already exceeding the limit and the fines don’t in the mail come for two weeks. We need to stop pretending as if 60kph zones on roads built like 400 series highways are worth a damn and actually start building better.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I respect your experiences, but we have a lot of data that shows these cameras actually do save lives.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Sure, as the shittiest possible option. We also have a lot of data that shows if we genuinely gave a shit about people’s lives we wouldn’t be investing big wide roads. If the city of Ottawa wants to save lives it would expand public transit but when ridership is low they cut busses and routes because the concept of induced demand is something they refuse to pay attention to. The city elected a guy who claimed there was a “war on cars” because apparently his oppenent’s plan to install bike lanes was a bridge too far. They don’t give a rat’s ass about people’s safety and using that as a justification is insultingly hypocritical and/or ignorant of them.

    I’m just getting very tired of every solution to the car problem being doing anything but actually addressing it in truly meaningful ways.

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