""Governments need to be putting more money back into people's pockets to help make their lives more affordable," Ford said Thursday at the announcement in Vaughan, Ont. "But unfortunately, too many governments are doing the opposite. They're increasing taxes and taking more money out of people's pockets. Over the last few years, we've seen municipalities across the province use municipal speed cameras as nothing more than a cash grab.""
""Why do we have to charge people?" Ford said. "Why don't we actually slow them down ... rather than let them speed through a speed camera?""
""It signals to people that the provincial government is OK with speeding," Olivia Chow said Thursday. "It will mean our roads are less safe.""
Ontario will introduce legislation next month to ban municipal speed cameras provincewide and frame the change as an affordability measure. Premier Doug Ford called speed cameras a cash grab and said governments should put more money back into people's pockets. Toronto issued about $40 million in fines from automated speed cameras in 2024 and the total so far this year is over $45 million. Thirty-seven municipalities in Ontario use speed cameras. Seventeen automated cameras were cut down in Toronto recently and the city's mayor warned the ban will signal tolerance for speeding and make roads less safe. The province will require municipalities with cameras to use large flashing signs in school zones. Recent studies and municipal data show cameras reduce speeding.
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