Milton has just installed a crap load of them and people are not happy.
Far too many spaced too close together.
Commercial Street in particular.
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Speed camera update (Sept.11)
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Far too many spaced too close together.
Commercial Street in particular.
Malks
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Do these geniuses realize that speed humps and chicanes do absolutely nothing to slow a motorcycle? Stand on the pegs to absorb the humps and chicanes hardly require any evasive action, while making a boring road a little more entertaining.
Fuzzbuster
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These ones actually have gaps in between so on a motorcycle you can actually continue at speed. In a car you can not.
31 cameras cut down in Toronto in the last 12 months. There is a pretty easy solution but I'm not going to give the city any ideas.
toronto.citynews.ca
Multiple Toronto speed cameras found cut down Tuesday morning
A speed camera on O'Connor Drive and Coxwell Avenue was cut down overnight, making it the 30th one to be downed in Toronto this year.
toronto.citynews.ca
sburns
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So it's more of a wide spread problem then I thought, not just this one particular location. Interesting.31 cameras cut down in Toronto in the last 12 months. There is a pretty easy solution but I'm not going to give the city any ideas.
Multiple Toronto speed cameras found cut down Tuesday morning
A speed camera on O'Connor Drive and Coxwell Avenue was cut down overnight, making it the 30th one to be downed in Toronto this year.
It's amazing residents/people are this adamant about some cameras.
I think people are sick of a revenue tool constantly being pushed as a safety tool. If politicians were honest and called this selective taxation that you could easily avoid if you didn't want to pay it, I'd have much less problem with them.
I'd still have problems with the speed limits constantly dropping for political reasons and not engineering reasons.
Sounds like safety to me :/
If Parkside was the deathtrap they like to pretend it is, they would have reconfigured the road years ago so vehicles naturally travelled slower. Whenever they wave the safety banner, they point to crashes where the offenders were going 2x or 3x the speed limit and the camera has zero effect on those drivers. Almost exactly the situation with the libs banning guns used by legal owners. They are the easy target even though they represent zero percent of the problems they are pretending to fix. Criminalizing thousands instead of prosecuting the few real criminals is a marketing strategy not a safety strategy.
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Douggie now says he's against photo radar as it's just taxation. He says he's going to do something about it. Meanwhile, the law requiring the flashing lights to be covered in school zones with cameras was directly under his direction and control.
Speed cameras are 'nothing but a tax grab,' Premier Ford says
Ontario Premier Doug Ford denounced the use of speed cameras amid a string of vandalism incidents that have resulted in more than 30 cameras cut down over the past year.
toronto.citynews.ca
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Technically they likely don't have to report this, but it's still public information that can be accessed by anyone via FOIA requests.
They're pervasive. Politicians find the revenue generated by arbitrarily low speed limits combined with speed cameras to be irresistible, all justified by "think of the children". And people are all for having speed cameras on their own street while complaining about the ticket they got on somebody else's street.
Speed cameras wouldn't trouble me so much if speed limits were appropriately set, with "there's too much traffic on MY street" a completely disallowed excuse.
Sorry, too busy blowing the budget on bike lanes....Sounds like safety to me :/
If Parkside was the deathtrap they like to pretend it is, they would have reconfigured the road years ago so vehicles naturally travelled slower. Whenever they wave the safety banner, they point to crashes where the offenders were going 2x or 3x the speed limit and the camera has zero effect on those drivers. Almost exactly the situation with the libs banning guns used by legal owners. They are the easy target even though they represent zero percent of the problems they are pretending to fix. Criminalizing thousands instead of prosecuting the few real criminals is a marketing strategy not a safety strategy.
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Douggie now says he's photo radar as it's just taxation. He says he's going to do something about it. Meanwhile, the law requiring the flashing lights to be covered in school zones with cameras was directly under his direction and control.
Speed cameras are 'nothing but a tax grab,' Premier Ford says
Ontario Premier Doug Ford denounced the use of speed cameras amid a string of vandalism incidents that have resulted in more than 30 cameras cut down over the past year.
Fuzzbuster
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‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after 3 cut down in Toronto this week
Premier Doug Ford says he plans to take matters into his own hands if Ontario municipalities don’t “get rid of the speed cameras” in short order.
www.cp24.com
Fuzzbuster
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I think a lot of folks thought they were a great idea until they themselves got a ticket in the mail and said wait a second I am a responsible driver. I warned people on a particular social media site in Oakville about how the system was going to work and was quickly destroyed by karens who said i was the most evil worst driver in the country. Well, i can say that i have never gotten a ticket because i know where they are and drive ridiculously slow, once past the camera i drive like normal. The cameras have no effect on the people who they are trying to target. It effects everyone else.
About a year ago, Barrie formally asked the province to allow the flashing lights to stay on in school zones and the province formally told them nfw, they must be off as per provincial law. Sadly, not surprising a politicians words and actions are so different.‘Get rid of the speed cameras,’ Doug Ford warns municipalities after 3 cut down in Toronto this week
Premier Doug Ford says he plans to take matters into his own hands if Ontario municipalities don’t “get rid of the speed cameras” in short order.
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Apparently 16 cameras in toronto cut down last night. It was a speed camera genocide.
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