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Record number of photo radar tickets in Ottawa so far in 2024: Here are the 10 busiest cameras (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)
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Ottawa's photo radar cameras have issued a record number of speeding tickets to drivers this year, as the city of Ottawa continues to expand the automated speed enforcement program in community safety zones, school zones and "high speed locations."

New data shows the 40 photo radar cameras have issued 229,105 tickets in the first seven months of 2024. The automated speed enforcement camera program resulted in 220,789 speeding tickets in 2023, 127,939 tickets in 2022 and 80,944 tickets in 2021.

Twelve new cameras have been activated so far in 2024, and work is underway to install 20 new photo radar cameras(opens in a new tab) across the city by the end of the year. Staff have estimated the city will issue one million tickets a year through the photo radar and red light camera programs.

The busiest photo radar camera is on King Edward Avenue, the busy road for motorists travelling between Ottawa and Gatineau over the Ottawa River. The camera issued 36,210 tickets in the February to July period.

The 10 busiest photo radar cameras in Ottawa in July

  • King Edward Avenue southbound, between Bolton Street and St. Patrick Street: 7,096 tickets
  • Walkley Road, between Halifax Drive and Harding Road: 2,873 tickets
  • Bronson Avenue, between Raven Road and Sunnyside Avenue: 2,220 tickets
  • St. Laurent Boulevard, between Noranda Avenue and Clarke Avenue: 1,838 tickets
  • Cedarview Road, between Fallowfield Road and Jockvale Road: 1,772 tickets
  • Katimavik Road, between Castlefrank Road and McGibbon Drive: 1,602 tickets
  • First Avenue, between Chrysler Street and Percy Street: 1,504 tickets
  • Hunt Club Road, between Pike Street and Lorry Greenberg Drive: 1,495 tickets
  • Bayshore Drive, near Woodridge Crescent: 1,474 tickets
  • Fisher Avenue, between Kintyre Private and Deer Park Road: 1,323 tickets

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Kinda torn on these things.

  1. It's bad street design that makes people speed in the first place
  2. These tickets will cause people to slow down
  3. The city has cause of abuse to increase revenue
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I've gotten 3 fucking tickets for doing ~10 over. So, I've decided that when I drive into Ottawa, I'm doing the speed limit. That's it. I don't care that people do 10% over and I'm holding up traffic.

There's a lot more cops watching the highway too. Doing 120 in a 100? You're good. 68 in a 60? Photo ticket.

[–] Grabthar 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Challenge every one of them and pick the trial option. 10 over gives you no option to plead guilty to a lesser charge because there isn't one, so no reason not to take the trial option. If you want to have some real fun, bring a Charter 11B challenge to court when they can't try you for 4+ years. Worst case, you still pay the 2024 set fine in ~2028 dollars, but when they have to start deciding between using court time for trying criminals or speeders, they will rethink the whole system.

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