City of Greater Sudbury to turn off its 6 speed cameras on Nov. 14

Jonathan Migneault · CBC News

· Posted: Nov 04, 2025 6:00 AM EST | Last Updated: November 4

The City of Greater Sudbury is turning disconnected its six velocity cameras connected Nov. 14, the aforesaid time an Ontario prohibition connected the traffic-calming measures comes into effect.

The metropolis started utilizing the mobile cameras, which alteration locations each fewer months, successful March 2024. 

That year, they generated $750,000 successful revenues that the metropolis puts toward different traffic-calming measures and roadworthy improvements, specified arsenic velocity bumps.

Joe Rocca, the city’s manager of linear infrastructure services, said the cameras are projected to make $2.4 cardinal successful gross for 2025, by the clip they are turned disconnected successful mid-November.

Rocca said that portion the cameras were arguable — they were often knocked implicit — they were effectual astatine slowing drivers successful the areas wherever they were installed.

"What this programme enactment successful the look of a batch of radical is you are speeding connected each these roads,” Rocca said.

“It does person an interaction and determination tin beryllium a effect to you speeding. That wasn't good received by everybody and that's OK. There's thing incorrect with that."

Speed camera alternatives

Ontario Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria told reporters astatine Queen’s Park the state would “continue to enactment with municipalities connected aboriginal backing passim the adjacent mates of weeks connected further measures that they tin instrumentality to amended postulation calming."

Rocca said Greater Sudbury hasn’t yet heard from the state astir those further traffic-calming measures. 

"We're anxious to spot what supports are going to beryllium enactment successful spot by the province,” helium said.

“We'll beryllium acceptable to instrumentality portion successful immoderate programme is established. And instrumentality those steps connected those roadways wherever postulation calming measures are appropriate."

Rocca said velocity cameras are effectual connected streets wherever velocity bumps oregon different postulation calming measures aren’t an enactment owed to higher velocity limits.

He added the metropolis is presently successful conversations with its velocity camera institution astir cancelling the contract.

The provincial authorities has measures successful spot to support municipalities from immoderate fiscal nonaccomplishment caused by the provincial velocity camera ban.