As from July 6, speed cameras across Toronto will start giving tickets to drivers who drive too fast near schools.
Toronto City said no fewer than 50cameras have been mounted on local, collector and arterial roads in Community Safety Zones that are close to schools, with a minimum of two cameras in each ward.
Signs have been posted in the areas to notify drivers about presence of the cameras and tickets will be issued automatically to the owners of vehicles detected speeding in those areas irrespective of who is driving.
The tickets will be fines that range from $5 per KPH for vehicles going between 1-19 KPH over the speed limit, $7.50 per KPH for vehicles going between 20-29 KPH over the speed limit and $12 per KPH for vehicles going 30-49 KPH over the speed limit.
The owner of any vehicle caught travelling 50 kilometres or more over the speed limit in the zones will be issued a summons to appear before a Justice of the Peace.
The tickets exclude demerit points.
The city said the camera locations have been selected based on data which indicates areas that have recorded speeding problems in the past.
Municipalities were given authority by the province to commence operating speed cameras in December 2019. The city mounted the cameras after then but could only issued warnings during the first 90 days.
According to the city, no fewer than 25,000 warning letters were issued in February and March.
Ticketing was initially scheduled to commence in April but it was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
As countdown to the start of automatic ticketing begins, Toronto has persisted in recording data from the cameras and has recorded above 142,000 speeding incidents in nine sites between January 27 and June 18, 2020.
