Speed Cameras save lives. How many people have died on CR45 each year? OPP should place speed cameras out each day and stay with them. The amount of aggressive driving in the County is very concerning.
I have had thirty one years with the O.P.P in various roles. Back in the late fifty or early sixties there was a Town foreman who was also the Town Policeman in Norwood. He had the distance between some hydro poles and had a chart worked out as to the time it took to get pass the poles. He was armed with a stopwatch and would take the lic. Plate number number if they were speeding. Once a week he would go into Peterborough and the Justice of the Peace would issue a summons by mail.
Do to complaints he had to quit but you didn,t speed through Norwood at that time, his reputation was well known.
Today the speed cameras are effective. It is the speeders that are complaining. If the Premier doesn’t like cameras then he should hire more police personnel to operate hand held speed guns. Typical government do away with something that works cost effective and put up more county signs. Slow the roll.
There is no question that these cameras work...I was fined $250.00 and I have maintained second gear in these zones ever since. Changing people's behaviour needs consequences.
I think Doug Ford is wrong! Signs alone don't work. But speed cameras, especially if there are signs indicating their presence, do slow speeders down. They're effective and needed around vulnerable areas such as schools, and other pedestrian-heavy areas. I've been caught once in Belleville on Sidney St. at 5 km over the limit. Now I know the camera is there, I won't speed again. The whole flow of traffic is effectively slowed at that area which is adjacent to several schools. Ford has made it easier to get alcohol, and now he's making it easier to speed: a bad combination!
Speed Cameras save lives. How many people have died on CR45 each year? OPP should place speed cameras out each day and stay with them. The amount of aggressive driving in the County is very concerning.
I have had thirty one years with the O.P.P in various roles. Back in the late fifty or early sixties there was a Town foreman who was also the Town Policeman in Norwood. He had the distance between some hydro poles and had a chart worked out as to the time it took to get pass the poles. He was armed with a stopwatch and would take the lic. Plate number number if they were speeding. Once a week he would go into Peterborough and the Justice of the Peace would issue a summons by mail.
Do to complaints he had to quit but you didn,t speed through Norwood at that time, his reputation was well known.
Today the speed cameras are effective. It is the speeders that are complaining. If the Premier doesn’t like cameras then he should hire more police personnel to operate hand held speed guns. Typical government do away with something that works cost effective and put up more county signs. Slow the roll.
I would rather have radar cameras than speed bumps
There is no question that these cameras work...I was fined $250.00 and I have maintained second gear in these zones ever since. Changing people's behaviour needs consequences.
I think Doug Ford is wrong! Signs alone don't work. But speed cameras, especially if there are signs indicating their presence, do slow speeders down. They're effective and needed around vulnerable areas such as schools, and other pedestrian-heavy areas. I've been caught once in Belleville on Sidney St. at 5 km over the limit. Now I know the camera is there, I won't speed again. The whole flow of traffic is effectively slowed at that area which is adjacent to several schools. Ford has made it easier to get alcohol, and now he's making it easier to speed: a bad combination!
What seems to missing in this important discussion is the opinion(s) of the enforcement officers i.e. the OPP.