Over 22,000 speed tickets issued in TO for the month of April

[PrivatePilot]

Speed went down, what about the accidents? Any change?

The two don't necessarily need to go hand in hand for the results to be considered effective.

I don't care if 2 cars bang into each other.

I do care if someone I know is in one of them and it amounts to minor survivable thing versus someone potentially dying because some tool was doing 120 in the 70 zone.

Or pedestrians.



Out my way they are actually installing these in busy community areas where pedestrians might indeed be crossing the roads, and in school zones.

Again, I have zero issues with this.

 

[GreyGhost]

Don't you know everybody's a perfect driver, so they have nothing to worry about the speed traps. They are just upset about the obvious tax grab.

The fact that they do 15 over in a 40 school zone with flashing yellow lights and a speed indicator is irrelevant. They are still excellent drivers.

The fact that the cops are set up at 01:00 in July in a school zone shows fundraising is the goal not speed.

I like that according to PP Durham is installing cameras in locations that make sense bring the speed down. If they were to install them in a school zone, it would make sense to me to move ticket threshold to 20 over in times where it should not be a school zone (eg 23:00 to 07:00).

 

[Dimitri]

The fact that the cops are set up at 01:00 in July in a school zone shows fundraising is the goal not speed.

If they are there are for 1 a.m. then it's likely local complaints.

If they are there for 1 p.m. then it's summer school.

 

[PrivatePilot]

The fact that the cops are set up at 01:00 in July in a school zone shows fundraising is the goal not speed.

Betcha the next time that person that got caught goes through that school zone, whatever time of day in the future, will slow down.

Someone blasting through speeding at 1AM is just as likely to do it at 1PM.

 

[Dimitri]

Out my way they are actually installing these in busy community areas where pedestrians might indeed be crossing the roads, and in school zones.

School zones, community safety zones, what ever you'd like to call them should all be 40km/h and have permanently installed speed cameras.

High pedestrian areas near busy downtown BIAs and parks should also be 40km/h zones with speed and red light cameras.

Tickets galore but maybe in a decade or two our average driver becomes courteous enough we can enjoy decent highways they keep whining we need.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

community safety zones, what ever you'd like to call them should all be 40km/h and have permanently installed speed cameras.

Yup. Pretty high density of residents on the right here. They're all dead, but that's beside the point. Better double the fines, just to be safe.

 

[GreyGhost]

Yup. Pretty high density of residents on the right here. They're all dead, but that's beside the point. Better double the fines, just to be safe.

Is that campbellville road? It makes me pucker as it looks like a spot that would make the K75 head shake like a mofo.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Is that campbellville road? It makes me pucker as it looks like a spot that would make the K75 head shake like a mofo.

Brittania Rd. I'm well into 172 when I go through that chicane on my SM in the mornings on the way to work.

 

[Dimitri]

Yup. Pretty high density of residents on the right here.

Well, easiest way to get a speed limit lowered is to have local residents whine to city council. Or that spot raked up a lot of accidents.

Hell if it's a cemetery as you said. One funeral convoy getting into an accident likely caused a bleeding heart in council to demand the change.

The police have little to nothing to do with it.

 

[mimico_polak]

Apparently Mississauga is now getting these cameras installed. 10 locations to start in zones reduced to 30kph.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Hell if it's a cemetery as you said. One funeral convoy getting into an accident likely caused a bleeding heart in council to demand the change.

No ones been burried in that cemetery in 100 years, but I’ll keep my eyes open just in case

 

[Dirty Frank]

If they are there are for 1 a.m. then it's likely local complaints.

If they are there for 1 p.m. then it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

Corrected for accuracy.

 

[Baggsy]

The two don't necessarily need to go hand in hand for the results to be considered effective.

I don't care if 2 cars bang into each other.

I do care if someone I know is in one of them and it amounts to minor survivable thing versus someone potentially dying because some tool was doing 120 in the 70 zone.

Or pedestrians.

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Out my way they are actually installing these in busy community areas where pedestrians might indeed be crossing the roads, and in school zones.

Again, I have zero issues with this.

3 mph with someone carrying lantern in front of vehicle. 5%
Lantern carriers are forming a union to get the limit lowered to 1 mph.

 

[Chris-CJ]

Apparently Mississauga is now getting these cameras installed. 10 locations to start in zones reduced to 30kph.

Cams

Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE)

Automated Speed Enforcement, which is coming soon to Misssissauga, uses a traffic camera and a speed measurement device to issue traffic tickets and help enforce speed limits in school area community safety zones.

www.mississauga.ca

Lower speed limits

Speed limits being lowered on busy road in Mississauga | insauga

If you regularly drive down one of Mississauga’s busiest (and most scenic) roads, you should be careful to watch your speed. At a recent general committee meeting, city council approved a recommendation to lower the speed limit on parts of Lakeshore Road. “The Transportation and Works...

www.insauga.com

Plus traffic calming measures or "speed humps" on many roads.

 

[TK4]

Ontario needs more speed cameras

Whatever it takes to make people cognizant of their surroundings

driving.ca

 

[Dimitri]

Ontario needs more speed cameras

Whatever it takes to make people cognizant of their surroundings

driving.ca

Basically, if you’re entering a community safety or school zone, the decreased speed limits are clearly marked. If you continue to sail through, you deserve the ticket — and some of you are dumb enough to repeatedly find tickets in your mailbox — like 15 times in one month.

Pretty much this.

 

[GreyGhost]

Pretty much this.

Except there is literally nothing stopping a municipality from declaring every single road inside their boundaries as a community safety zone (nor anything to stop them from ticketing 1 km/h over).

They design and build roads for high speed and then ticket everyone that drives the comfortable speed. That is crap. Change your municipal design guidelines. With proper street design, newly constructed streets/roads wont need speed cameras to achieve the desired travel speed.

 

[Dimitri]

Schools, hospitals, retirement homes, parks and the heavier foot traffic BIA's.

Yes 1km/h is ticketable... That's the HTA.