A big Gotcha sign
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Automated speed enforcement ticket
- Thread starter jemberlin
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Alternatively, "thanks for helping to fund road safety campaigns".A big Gotcha sign
"Thanks for contributing to rename Dundas Street, Sincerely, Olivia"
You do raise a good point about running the VIN.
I got pulled over by OPP a few weeks ago, I was about 30 minutes north of Sault Ste Marie. Cop said as he drove by his system flagged the car I was driving as stolen. I handed over all my info and all the documentation for the car, but he never checked any of that against the VIN.
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They could have at least rounded the times off to the closest X o'clock hour.City of barrie ditched the flashing lights that show when school zone speed limits apply and went with these signs. Camera right after sign. Dirty dirty dirty. Having people try to read a paragraph in a school zone seems criminally stupid.
8 am - 9 am
1pm - 4pm
That would have been much easier to read and comprehend
Why ditch the flashing lights? That seems, to me, to be a way to create a "gotcha" in order to make money.
And, I just read this morning, that their "solution" isn't to re-enable the flashing lights, but rather to just have the school-zone speed limit apply all day and change the sign.
The excuse was provincial law no longer allows flashing lights for timed speed changes. Not sure if true. I did not look for relevant law (or lack thereof).
guzzirider
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The school system is underfunded.
People refuse to slow down in a "school zone"
Automated speed cameras are the solution to both problems!
People refuse to slow down in a "school zone"
Automated speed cameras are the solution to both problems!
Of course, barrie being barrie, even though the complicated sign encompassed 8:15-3:45, the single time block is 07:00 to 17:00. No explanation on why the window got so much wider (cough, fundraising).
Barrie motorists caught in speed camera signage confusion
The City of Barrie is working to improve the clarity of signage when approaching speed camera zones after residents got ticketed for speeding despite not knowing which speed limit to follow.
Essa lost a camera. Someone cut it down with a chainsaw and completely destroyed it. As expected, government won't provide a cost estimate and use a crap excuse. If the entire thing is destroyed, the cost is the cost of the whole system which you obviously know as you recently paid for it.
barrie.ctvnews.ca
Township to replace photo radar camera that vandals cut down and destroyed
The Township of Essa plans to replace a photo radar speed camera after someone cut it down from along the 25th Sideroad and destroyed it.
Based upon the local locations, I'm going to assume that the speed cameras are put in by private companies at the behest of municipalities, with whom they then share the generated revenue stream. Which companies run the speed cameras? Global Traffic? Of course, when negotiating locations, the priority will become revenue stream over safety. If too many tickets are issued, rather than removing the cameras and trying other methods, the cameras stay or are activated longer. There are current class action lawsuits in the U.S. against two camera companies.
There are different cost models. Some have the camera operator fronting all costs and taking a percentage of revenue. Some have the municipality owning the equipment and pay a much smaller fee to a processing centre. Then their are hybrids. As for chasing money, toronto continually trumpets Parkside drive as the highest ticket camera and it has been for years. They have done nothing to change the road design or speed limit to better fit with actual traffic conditions or desired conditions. Straight money grab on a road with an artificially low speed limit and minimal pedestrians.
So the bad spot for pedestrians has a higher speed limit and no fundraising camera? Interesting.
I'm not aware of where the speed camera is, but this is down by the bridges where a mixed use path crosses the road with no lights/crosswalk from High Park to St. Joe's. The bridges create a blindspot for cyclists, vehicles and pedestrians.
Camera is just south of Algonquin. 40 km/h zone, downhill, few pedestrians, highest grossing camera every quarter, never moved, speed limit never increased to match traffic flow, road design never changed to reduce traffic speed.
I'll supply the beer to anyone that cuts these things down. To the fine upstanding citizen looking out for others by doing this, a sincere thank you.Essa lost a camera. Someone cut it down with a chainsaw and completely destroyed it. As expected, government won't provide a cost estimate and use a crap excuse. If the entire thing is destroyed, the cost is the cost of the whole system which you obviously know as you recently paid for it.
Township to replace photo radar camera that vandals cut down and destroyed
The Township of Essa plans to replace a photo radar speed camera after someone cut it down from along the 25th Sideroad and destroyed it.
Not that I ever drive through Essa, but I'm sure many have been stung by this.
guzzirider
Well-known member
The camera probably paid for itself in a few days so it's a loosing battle.
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