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Ontario city pauses speed cameras after 32K tickets handed out in 3 weeks (globalnews.ca)
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After more than 32,000 speeding tickets were handed out in just three weeks by new automated speed enforcement cameras in community safety zones, council in the City of Vaughan decided to pause the program.

Mayor Steven Del Duca put forward the motion last week to pause the tickets until September, when council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (20 children)

council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.

Are you fucking kidding me?

It's like pointing out to thieves where all the cameras in a bank are.

The speed limit sign is the only information drivers need. If they are going faster, it's a ticket.

These automated speed cameras seem to be working exactly as intended. The 32,000 speeders can go fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean I think its fine if people "know" the places they have to slow down for the cameras, if those places pose a greater risk of damage/injury from speeding than others.

Sometimes I see police cruisers on the side of the road flashing their lights on which seems like a similar principle: they aren't trying to catch anyone but they are trying to slow them down through the area and it's effective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean I think its fine if people "know" the places they have to slow down for the cameras

What that does is cause people to slow down where the cameras are, then speed up where they aren't.

If drivers assume that cameras are everywhere, watching and waiting to ticket them, maybe they'll just go the posted speed limit.

[–] KairuByte 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If we just assume the government is always watching everything we do, there will be no crime! Let’s install cameras everywhere, including in your home, and we can get to 0% crime! What could go wrong?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Driving is a ~~right~~ privilage, not a ~~privilege~~ right.

Speed enforcement cameras (and red light cameras) are doing something that we don't have the money to do via traffic officers.

Roads should be watched and laws enforced. Because people killing people with their vehicle shouldn't be something we view as normal or acceptable, IMO.

Edit: fixed glaring mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Driving is not a right. Not everyone is entitled to it. Blind people, people under 16, people with certain health conditions, people who have had too many DUIs.

I agree with the rest of your comment but driving isn't a right, we've just built a society where it feels like we have to treat it as a right to be fair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Doh, I got that reversed 🫣 Corrected now.

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