The city of Brampton is fighting to keep its automatic speed cameras (ASEs) and when and where cameras are being used, ready to compromise with the province.
The Brampton City Council has unanimously voted for unanimously vote to oppose the premiere plan to scrap automatic speed enforcement in 40 municipalities that conduct the program.
In the last six months, this step was presented after dozens of speed cameras were damaged on Toronto roads, One includes one on the parkside drive that has been cut at least six times,
Councilor Rovena is leading the allegation in Santos Brampton, saying that speed cameras save lives. She took Citynuse to Main Street South, one of the areas with a speed camera, which is some distance away from churches, a high school, city hall and Big Downtown Park.
Santos said, “You cannot put speed bump here, so a school in this area has a speed camera.”
Santos says that thanks to automated enforcement, with this stretch, the drivers have a 96 percent compliance rate of 50 km/h. Speed limit.
He said, “They have received warnings here … they see that there is a camera here and it is the road with the highest compliance in the context of the people after the speed limit because we implemented it and gave notice to the people,” he explained.
To prove his point that he is equipped with many people within several speed limits, to track the speed of vehicles running under a stretch armed with a radar gun.
When the Santos went to the north of the main street, the speed limit is the same, but there is no automatic speed camera, it was not the same result.
“We were traveling up to 75 km/h. Tomorrow up to 85 km/h. It is a 50 km/hrrrh,” he shared.
Brampton first launched its ASE program in 2020 with 50 ground-mounted cameras, which were rotated in 200 nominated community security areas across the city.
Since last year, however, the city has installed 185 new pole-mounted cameras and has opened a multi-million dollar ticket processing center.
Santos tells Citynues that the proposal he presented was unanimously supported, came up with a compromise which he hopes that the province would consider.
The agreement involves limiting cameras to school locations, maintaining the existing speed threshold during peak hours and targeting the most dangerous motion to the most dangerous speed to maintain high thresholds during non-covered hours, to capture excessive speeds, and apply a cap on the number of tickets that can be released a single license plate.
The proposal also stated that the province should follow through the ban, it should reimburse the municipalities for investments used to apply a provincial size program and “and” and “and additional funds should be provided to apply alternatively, although not necessarily effective, traffic cool measures.”
The office of the Transport Minister said that Premier Doug Ford and Minister Prabmeet Sarkar’s comments are in response to what the government’s plan is on speed cameras.
Ford has called the speed cameras “Cash Grab” despite many municipalities Ontario Head Police Association Saying that the cameras have helped the drivers slowly and helped to save their lives.
Sarkaria has strengthened the position of Ford, suggesting that it is a “not all or anything” and that every municipality is expected to follow.