Windsor
Five cameras person been approved that volition beryllium moved six times a twelvemonth done schoolhouse and assemblage information zones.
Tickets expected to screen costs with immoderate other wealth going to postulation calming measures
Chris Ensing · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 14, 2025 11:22 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
Speed cameras volition beryllium coming to Windsor, Ont., and could beryllium acceptable up earlier the extremity of this year.
Five cameras person been approved and they'll be be moved six times a twelvemonth done schoolhouse and assemblage information zones.
City medication said these cameras request to beryllium leased from an approved vendor, which volition outgo astir $1.3 cardinal each year.
Staff expect fines levied nether the programme volition screen its operating costs. Any wealth that comes successful beyond that volition beryllium enactment into the postulation calming budget.
The circumstantial locations volition beryllium marked with signs informing drivers that a photograph radar camera volition beryllium installed astatine a circumstantial determination weeks earlier it is acceptable up.
City unit volition fto radical cognize wherever the cameras spell with societal media posts and advertising.
The locations volition besides beryllium listed online akin to the mode the reddish airy cameras are posted here.
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Those locations person not been selected yet and metropolis unit person not said what velocity level beyond the bounds volition trigger a fine.
Coun. Renaldo Agostino asked metropolis unit if the cameras would beryllium capable to timepiece further violations similar amerciable parking.
He was told the cameras would lone beryllium utilized to enforce velocity enforcement.
The cameras volition beryllium successful summation to 20 reddish airy cameras approved by assembly that are dispersed passim the city.
"This benignant of exertion has a precise proven way record," said metropolis technologist David Simpson.
"Not lone decreases the complaint of vehicular collisions but besides the wounded severity wrong the aforesaid zones."
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Chris Ensing has worked arsenic a producer, newsman and big successful Windsor since 2017. He's besides reported successful British Columbia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador. His email is [email protected].
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