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Debate over photo radar cameras moves to rural Ottawa (ottawa.ctvnews.ca)
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Speeding is becoming a growing concern for residents in rural areas, especially as new housing developments pop up. In 2020, a city report showed rural Ottawa had the highest percentage of fatal collisions at 37 per cent.

Construction for a roundabout at the Perth-Meynell intersection is expected to start in the spring to help with the flow of traffic.

Now that council has approved Brown's motion, city staff will spend the year identifying locations that could meet the conditions for a speed camera.

"This isn't about raising revenue it's about solving the problem," he said. "We want to make sure, as we build out these communities, we are bringing solutions we know work."

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[–] aelwero 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"This isn't about raising revenue it's about solving the problem"

The entitled gentrificators likely won't give two shits about your fines lol. Speed cameras would be a viable option to raise revenue, but probably won't do much to deter people with city money who move out to the sticks from enjoying the shit out of a lack of traffic..

The sort of fines that are appropriate for traditional rural dwellers won't dissuade urbanites.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only reasonable solution is a points system that leads to license suspension.

When Saskatchewan first introduced their points system, my lead-footed dad got a 30-day suspension for 3 speeding tickets. And it was a full suspension, with no allowance for the fact that he was the only licensed driver in the family, there was no public transit to his place of work, and his job normally required that he drive a company vehicle.

The only thing that saved him was that a colleague in another department was willing to pick him on the way to work and that he was part of a crew that shared driving duties. Well, he could have burned his vacation time, I guess.

On top of that, his driver's license went from basically a nominal fee to over $100 and took a few years of points free driving to fall back to normal.

I don't think he ever went over the speed limit again.