According to a new survey, Toronto’s speed enforcement cameras are having an average impact on the driver behavior, showing that the increasing number of motor drivers is braking when they present devices.
Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) South Central Ontario SurveyConducted from 7 March to 19 March, 1,500 Ontario drivers voted and suggested that automatic speed enforcement (ASE) cameras are changing the driver’s habits – even the ticket number continues to increase.
The conclusion shows what Toronto City Councilors are seeing in their own wards, that more cameras are being deployed and more tickets are being matching, driver awareness and caution are also increasing.
Parkdale-High Park Councilor Gord Perks said, “We found a significant decline in the average speed and the number of those who were growing rapidly, and this is a long way to say, this camera is saving life.”
Despite the increase in enforcement, officials and road safety advocates argue that the actual success of the program has not only been measured in the number of fines released, but slow, more responsible for driving in cultural changes.
Michael Stewart, Community Relations at CAA South Central Ontario, said, “seventy-three percent of the drivers said that when they reach the cameras, they slow down,” said Community Relations Advisor Michael Stewart at CAA South Central Ontario. “These survey results are convinced that we are starting to see that it is stripping drivers in the right direction.”
Slow or Pay: Toronto Driver Answer Speed Cameras
The CAA survey also concluded that many drivers are changing their routes to avoid passing the city-wide speed cameras, and yet, not everyone is in favor of strategy. Some have disappointed what has seen as a large number of speed cameras across the city, this initiative seems like cash grabbing compared to a safety measure.
“It is just urinating people, I think,” a driver Citynues interviewed on Thursday.
“This helps me go slow,” said another driver.
CAA data indicates that about a quarter (23 percent) of Ontario drivers has obtained tickets from a camera, compared to 17 percent in 2024.
Toronto-Danforth Councilor Paula Fletcher admitted that her husband was one of many people who had received a speed camera ticket.
“You start realizing, and you’re more thinking when you are driving if you have one of those tickets,” Fletcher said.
The number of tickets increases, but caution is taken behind the wheel
Hamber River-Black Creek Councilor Anthony Peruza said that the target is detention-and not a signal as a sign of the increasing innings in the driver’s behavior as the system is working.
“When people know that there is a camera and the speed has been changed, they follow the rules, they slow down, that is what we want to do,” he said. “I don’t want them to get a ticket, I want them to be slow.”
Some of Toronto’s most active speed cameras have also become the major goals for the wandals. For example, notorious camera in Parkdale, which range $ 7 million in fineRepeated barbarity or damaged – the work of disregard that has attracted public attention.
While these cameras are often ranked among the city’s top tickets, it is rare to catch those responsible for vandalism.
“It’s unfortunate that it has joined this guerrilla war, but where is it [police] The officer who is sitting there all night waiting? Fletcher questioned.
The allowances were blunt while addressing the Parkdale Speed Camera Vandles.
“Please don’t do this; you are killing people.”
According to the survey, not only are more driver taps of brakes when they spot a speed camera – they maintain low speed after passing them, indicating a permanent change in driving behavior.