Ontario’s Transportation Minister says speed cameras across the province will be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday to ban speed cameras
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Ontario’s Transportation Minister says speed cameras across the province will be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
Ford has said speed cameras do not work to slow drivers down, although evidence collected by municipalities and researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children says otherwise, and he believes measures such as speed bumps, roundabouts and signs with flashing lights are more effective.
However, Transport Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria could not say when such measures would replace speed cameras.
He says there will be some temporary signage.
Liberal parliamentary leader John Fraser says it will make communities less safe.
The measures to ban speed cameras were contained in a bureaucracy reduction bill, which the government accelerated, limiting debate and skipping public hearings.
