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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] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I think the takeaway is that speed cameras won't deter speeding because it's endemic and engrained in the traffic flow. Perhaps the thoughtful pause will determine that traffic calming measures like medians and speed bumps are required. Maybe they'll install spike strips and speed sensing missiles. Probably a good idea to go to Council meetings to find out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I think the takeaway is that speed cameras won't deter speeding

That's not true.

Numerous cities report lower overall speeds, and a reduction in traffic collisions when automated cameras are deployed.

For example, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/annoying-thing-speed-cameras-ottawa-they-work-1.6786951 and https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/speed-cameras-proved-effective-at-latest-locations-10758040.

When my city installed the first speed camera, it clocked over 100,000 speeders in 40 days. Unfortunately, we gave drivers a grace period, so no fines were issued at the beginning.

But in those areas, speeding was reduced.

I'd rather have roads designed to be slow and require attention to navigate, but good luck getting anyone to listen to that. Trying to get any speed reduction strategies to be implemented is very difficult because of NIMBYs.

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

I guess I misspoke. I meant to say that they aren't detering speeding yet.

In my rural area they are putting 50km signs in the middle of the road on the yellow lines. Makes you feel like you're threading a needle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

In my rural area they are putting 50km signs in the middle of the road on the yellow lines. Makes you feel like you're threading a needle.

I like that idea!

We have something similar in a few spots around here using flexible bollards.