Speed camera update (Sept.11)

[GreyGhost]

But the more money collected, the more people are speeding?

Speeding needs to be in quotation marks. In many locations, they lower the speed limit without changing the road design in any way. That leaves the vehicles travelling the same speed on the same road but now they are "speeding". Not safety, just revenue generation promoted as safety.

 

[Relax]

Ottawa has made over $41M with red light cameras. They were sold as improving safety. Surprise, surprise, not a single dollar of the generated revenue has gone to road safety. It goes to general revenue and the police Road safety fund gets allocated zero.

Road safety fund shut out of $41 million red-light camera revenue

Millions of dollars generated by red-light cameras have instead been allocated to the city's general operating budget and to Ottawa police.

ottawacitizen.com

So who misallocated the funds?

"The road safety reserve fund was established to “ensure sustained investment in road safety initiatives,” and, in 2019, council directed that all revenue from automated traffic enforcement be allocated to the city’s Road Safety Action Plan.

Since that council direction, no revenues from net new red-light cameras has been allocated to the road safety reserve fund,” the auditor general report stated."