I would love to see them implement something like they tried in Montreal for school zones. They have speed cameras set up and if they detect a speeder instead of issuing a ticket that the driver will receive later the camera just triggers the stop light to turn red in time to catch the speeder. It literally just slows the speeding traffic down and can’t possibly be taken as a “cash grab” like most speed cameras are.
Can’t see why not both: effectively slows speeding traffic down and cash grab and spend that money on more traffic calming.
That’s GENIUS.
This is actually such a good idea???
It’s amazing how much Christine Boyle alone gets done, all while having to fight frivolous lawsuits from Ken Sim. I really hope she runs for mayor and the left consolidates around her.
Boyle is my fucking hero. I emailed the council after they canned the broadway bike lane and she responded very sympathetically.
Me too. I’d be so exhausted if I had to put up with what she puts up with, but she keeps fighting.
I didn’t know we had speed cameras. Is it like an enhanced red light camera where it’s triggered by a red light violation but they can receive a showing ticket as well? Or are the speed thresholds very high?
Our traffic cams in Calgary will do speed on red, so double ticket if speeding through a red and can also just so speed on green too, includes yellow I would imagine.
Threshold is around 11/km over. Over never heard of one getting one below that, even for photo radar unless in a playground zone.
Speed on Red I can see being a good one. I’ve seen people dump two gears to make the red on MacLeod at Southland (I think; where was tramps comics?).
Regular red light cams don’t improve safety. But they do drastically increase red light collisions as people are looking at the light too much at exactly the wrong time.
Speed cameras, help very little but have been shown to be blatant and slimy cash grabs.
It comes down to cops and roadside tickets. Now that Farnworth is forcing half-trainable (not my assessment) metrocops at Surrey, we can expect bearings as well as tickets. Maybe it’d be better to get one in the mail then.
I’ve seen that argument before, but the numbers don’t back that up.
Red light cameras absolutely increase safety, there is a caveat though, it increases accident rates. It reduces deadlier accidents like head-ons and t-bones, but increases minor accidents like rear-ends. Arguably a tradeoff that has benefits.
Conservative Surrey politicians pushed for decades to get private police force.
Signs all of the paperwork and the transition passes several opportunities to back out of the deal.
When they realize how much it will cost them, their idea becomes the province forced it on them.
Surrey politicians made their own bed and it’s 100% the fault of conservative politics. The NDP is saving the province and country money by making Surrey do what it begged to be able to.
