cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35871824
Mayor Patrick Brown said he’s talked with the premier. Brampton has 185 photo radar cameras deployed.
The City of Brampton has spent millions of dollars going all-in on automated speed enforcement (ASE) technology and now Premier Doug Ford says his government might ban it.
On Tuesday (Sep. 9), Ford told reporters that he wants municipalities to voluntarily remove their ASE cameras — otherwise known as photo radar — or the province might ban them.
“It’s just a tax grab. They should take out those cameras — all of them,” Ford said. “Hopefully, the cities will get rid of them … or I’m going to help them get rid of them very shortly.”
Kralt told council that the cameras had reduced average driving speeds in six study areas by between 13 and 26 km/h, while increasing speed limit compliance by up to 85 per cent.
There are two petitions currently active for and against.
Link to petition posted on change.org, urging the city to keep the cameras. https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-speed-cameras-in-brampton
Link to petition posted on change.org, urging the city to remove the cameras. https://www.change.org/p/ditch-the-speed-cameras-petition-for-immediate-removal-in-brampton-ontario
Sure, as the shittiest possible option. We also have a lot of data that shows if we genuinely gave a shit about people’s lives we wouldn’t be investing big wide roads. If the city of Ottawa wants to save lives it would expand public transit but when ridership is low they cut busses and routes because the concept of induced demand is something they refuse to pay attention to. The city elected a guy who claimed there was a “war on cars” because apparently his oppenent’s plan to install bike lanes was a bridge too far. They don’t give a rat’s ass about people’s safety and using that as a justification is insultingly hypocritical and/or ignorant of them.
I’m just getting very tired of every solution to the car problem being doing anything but actually addressing it in truly meaningful ways.