Speed camera update (Sept.11)

[Rob MacLennan]

Perhaps if the various cities had put speed cameras just in appropriate areas, instead of plastering them all over as Patric Brown has done, there wouldn't have been the uproar that made Ford push fro their banning? Vaughan voluntarily discontinues their more limited use in September.

 

[GreyGhost]

Perhaps if the various cities had put speed cameras just in appropriate areas, instead of plastering them all over as Patric Brown has done, there wouldn't have been the uproar that made Ford push fro their banning? Vaughan voluntarily discontinues their more limited use in September.

The whining from Brown et al was insufferable. "We promise we'll change and only put them in school zones and not artificially lower speed limits and set a reasonable and disclosed threshold. Just don't take our safety away". Wtf. You could have done that before. You still won't admit that this is entirely about revenue. Always talking about doing better in the future with zero effort to actually do better.

 

[Rob MacLennan]

The whining from Brown et al was insufferable. "We promise we'll change and only put them in school zones and not artificially lower speed limits and set a reasonable and disclosed threshold. Just don't take our safety away". Wtf. You could have done that before. You still won't admit that this is entirely about revenue. Always talking about doing better in the future with zero effort to actually do better.

And Brown is a lying sack, because he's already done that by extending school zones. For example Bramaela Road, past Bramalea Secondary School, used to be a uniform 60 Kmh. It currently had signs stating "Speed Camera Coming Soon" and, when that sign went up, the limit past the school was dropped from 60 to 50. The road that intersects Bramalea at that point, Balmoral Drive, varied between 50 and 40 Km between Dixie Road and Bramalea Road. It was 50 Kmh for the first 100 metres or so from Dixie, went to 40 past Balmoral Senior Public and St. John Fisher Catholic School, and went back to 50 Kmh all the way to Bramalea Rd. There are at least 2 speed cameras on that stretch of Balmoral Dr.

I've already mentioned the section of road that they dropped to 40 Kmh, that had been 50 Kmh for decades, just before they put in a speed camera. That's where I got a ticket for 11 Kmh over, in an area that I thought was still 50 Kmh.

And that's just one area that I'm very familiar with. The distance on Balmoral that has been reduced from 50 Kmh to 40 Kmh has more than doubled.