I'm now at the point that I ignore Waze's alerts about traffic cameras. With how often they get called out and how speed limits are being monkeyed with, I'm pretty much assuming they're everywhere now. They got me once. Could have got me twice if I wasn't normally a conscientious driver on residential streets. It makes me feel like the initial "Community Safety Zone" usual double-tap of fines is the whole point of the exercise.
Douggie actually brought forward the bill to kill them. That's step one. Unfortunately, it's a stupid omnibus bill with lots of unrelated issues. I hate those as they are politics at its worst. Makes it easy to take shots at anyone that opposes a single section by pointing to the harms caused if the other sections don't get passed quickly.
All that the Opposition Parties can do is delay, with debate. With a Majority it's a done deal. Then come the court battles with Brown and Chow.
This location originally had one of those, they switched to the pole mounted ones (here and many other locations) as the ground level ones get disabled very easily with paint etc., and often. When they went to poles in this location they just kept making them beefier and they kept getting cut down (instead of just spray painted)... so back to the starting point I guess.
The way that things are going I don't think it will be long before the camera proponents have reduced the school zone limits to 25Kmh (15MPH), like in many US jurisdictions, and cameraed the hell out of them.
And then the surrounding neighbourhoods will be packed with traffic bypassing the collector road with an insanely low speed limit. Morons.
toronto.citynews.ca
www.bramptonguardian.com
I think that's 3 more than the amount they originally announced were going to be installed, back in late Spring.‘Tickets continue to be issued’: Brampton to operate its 185 speed cameras until provincial ban takes effect
‘Tickets continue to be issued’: Brampton to operate its speed cameras until provincial ban takes affect.
185 speed camera. Wow!
Those camera were projected to bring in 30million per year according to a quick google search. Think of the children!
I'm sure we have heard it by now but it looks like speed cameras are coming down as of Nov 14 2025
Any outstanding ticket or tcikets still to be recived between now and Nov 14 will NEED to be paid.
Speed cameras in Ontario officially banned as Ford legislation passes
The Ford government has officially banned speed cameras in Ontario as the legislation passed at Queens Park, making way for efforts to have all speed cameras gone in two weeks.
ontherecordnews.ca
So, who picks up the contract cancellation costs of the banned cameras?Makes me wonder about the revenue shortfall....
City of Toronto Imposes Hiring Freeze to Combat a Multi-billion Dollar Shortfall - On The Record
City officials turn to internal efficiencies to manage costs while union leaders say hiring freezes could strain workers
We would need to hire some consultants to look into whether an efficiency audit is justified.
If the City was competent, there shouldn't be substantial cancellation costs. Contractor takes back cameras and redeploys on another site. The whole point of not owning the hardware is flexibility and scalability. If they signed a contract that prohibits that, wtf, they should have just bought the cameras if they are paying for them whether they are used or not.
Yeah right, public funds...these people don't care.
Ehhhh, typically reserved for Acts of God. Or the wording better be concrete; market changes, etc are usually not covered.
Let's hope you are right.
There is no way that the camera companies are sucking up the losses any more than developers will walk away from condo closing failures.
