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Ontario city pauses speed cameras after 32K tickets handed out in 3 weeks (globalnews.ca)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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] 31 points 3 weeks ago (24 children)

Over the summer months, when the cameras snap a pic of a speeder they will receive a warning in the mail rather than a fine. The city says it hopes the strategy will reduce driving speeds through awareness rather than punitive measures.

This is an intelligent and measured move. Make citizens aware that enforcement exists. Then, after making them aware that they're being monitored, turn on fines. The goal is to reduce speeding drivers, not to collect revenue.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (18 children)

Or, fix the speed limit problem? If a lot of people are doing a certain limit through an area, clearly the limit is the problem... Cities keep lowering speed limits everywhere when traffic seems to struggle to reach limits in the first place. Not sure what exactly they're expecting to have happen.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Pedestrain safety becomes a concern at higher speeds. Collisons become more intense and more deadly as speed increases. The drivers are the problem, not the speed limit.

If the cars aren't able to reach the limit due to traffic, how did the cameras hand out so many speeding tickets?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

At 30kph, a pedestrian hit by a car survives 90% of the time.

At 50kph, it’s 50/50 if a pedestrian dies.

At 70kph, it’s 90/10 dead body.

As someone in that lucky 10%, I’m all for more enforcement of speed limits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wow fuck cars all roads should be 30kph

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Great, so set the limits to 70kmh so pedestrians stop being so careless, or lower the limits and put more pedestrian crossings in place.

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