Ontario city pauses speed cameras after 32K tickets handed out in 3 weeks | Globalnews.ca
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After more than 32,000 speeding tickets were handed out in just three weeks by automatic speed cameras in community safety zones, Vaughan council decided to pause the program.

After more than 32,000 speeding tickets were handed out in just three weeks by new automated speed enforcement cameras in community safety zones, council in the City of Vaughan decided to pause the program.

Mayor Steven Del Duca put forward the motion last week to pause the tickets until September, when council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.

  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    If we just assume the government is always watching everything we do, there will be no crime! Let’s install cameras everywhere, including in your home, and we can get to 0% crime! What could go wrong?

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Driving is a right privilage, not a privilege right.

      Speed enforcement cameras (and red light cameras) are doing something that we don’t have the money to do via traffic officers.

      Roads should be watched and laws enforced. Because people killing people with their vehicle shouldn’t be something we view as normal or acceptable, IMO.

      Edit: fixed glaring mistake.

      • FireRetardant@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        Driving is not a right. Not everyone is entitled to it. Blind people, people under 16, people with certain health conditions, people who have had too many DUIs.

        I agree with the rest of your comment but driving isn’t a right, we’ve just built a society where it feels like we have to treat it as a right to be fair.