Beginning this week, the Region of Durham will be installing automated speed enforcement (ASE) signage on Durham roadways, advising drivers that speed cameras will begin operation in 90 days.
“We are ready to roll out automated speed enforcement, an effective tool to get drivers to slow down and drive with care,” says Ramesh Jagannathan, Director of Transportation and Field Services for Durham Region, in a statement.
“As part of Durham Vision Zero’s goal to eliminate fatalities and serious injuries on our roadways, we know that reducing speed is the best way to decrease the frequency and severity of collisions. Automated speed enforcement is the reminder some drivers need to follow posted speed limits for the safety of our community.”
Drivers will notice the automated speed enforcement “coming soon” signs in some school zones and designated Community Safety Zones on Regional roads. A full list of locations where Durham Region plans to use ASE can be found at durham.ca/ASE.
After the 90-day advance signage period, ASE cameras take images of vehicles that are detected going over the speed limit. These images will be reviewed by a Provincial Offences Act officer, and an offence notice will be sent to the registered owner of the vehicle.
Durham Region is one of many municipalities across Ontario using ASE to create safer roads. Learn more about ASE in Ontario at ASEOntario.com.
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about time !
Nothing but a cash grab. If you want to control speed install speed bumps. They will have the same effect on speeding.
What a crock of s#$t!!! Speed isn’t the cause of crashes poor driving skills and the ease of getting a licence cause crashes. This is nothing more than a cash grab.
They would definitely meet their quota between Adelaide and Rossland on Harmony Rd!! cha- ching!!!
Grow up James. If you want to speed go to Mossport or out on the highway Not in the city where school kids and elderly are walking around We don’t need you clowns racing on our streets
Speed bumps are a rediculous solution. Those things beat the crap out of your cars front end if your into that. I’m not Speed and pay the piper. Easy Peary. The highways always a viable option🤠
Sorry ED! No one is talking about racing! The limits are too low, most limits where set back in the 50’s and 60’s when cars where heavy tanks. With all the upgrades in braking and the like its time to rise many of the speed limits. You talk about kids, WHERE are these kids??? they go from moms car to there computer games, there’s no kids outdoors today.
Absolutely correct, and the only logical post here. Since speed limits were set decades ago, cars have got ever better in numerous ways. Much better designed radial tires, 4 wheel disk brakes, ALB, traction control, stability control, dramatically improved suspensions. Therefore only a dummy can deny that cars today stop and are capable of accident avoidance FAR better than years ago when we had and lived with these speed limits.
Yet, apart from all logic (except in school zones), speed limits have not been increased. Far from it, the only thing that happens is limits get reduced!
Volume of traffic is no excuse either, as in the current day, there is less in North Durham than suburbia Toronto had back when the speed limits were set.
Here in Port Perry, the council abdicated its responsibility to objectively explain all views plus and minus on traffic speed changes, when it sent out a “survey”. Obviously, there was a predetermined objective (tick off a “democracy” box perhaps?) not disclosed when they sent this survey to 90%> licensed driver/property owners without stating anything about (a) how speed limits are set (DUH! there IS a logical process!), (b) what their specific intentions are and what $$ they potentially mean through increased “taxes”, and (c) the aforementioned facts about vehicles and their inherent safety now vs. 25 years ago.
The town councils couldn’t care less about “safety”, so other than in school zones don’t let that excuse fool you. Especially injury to kids! What a joke, and what is my proof of that? In a decade, I have never seen deadbeat parents who lazily tell their kids to go out and play in or near traffic, then Beyond Belief have the nerve to put up a sign saying ” slow down!, our kids play here! “, EVER been fined for this behavior or publicly shamed in the newspapers, as they should be. In contrast, every day I see great parents who utilize their backyards as safe play areas for their kids, and also have them playing in the many mini parks in the area. Bottom line, roads were always meant for efficient passage of vehicles, nothing has changed in 25 years about the safety of same for people. But wait! Smartphones/distracted driving etc. Well I say, divert attention from revenue collecting or pet peeve satisfying schemes, and deal with the real problems in terms of what has changed.
I live in a community, Port Perry, where I suggest people visit if they want to get a laugh at how money can possibly be spent wildly as a result of what appears to have been giving in to a completely obsessed person or persons. I’m talking about the “righteous” reduction in speed limits to a majority of roads to 40 km or 60 km (secondary highways), post “democracy” survey (see above), and the sheer number of speed limit signs taxpayers were forced to buy! You will wonder if the residents of Port Perry are richer than people who live in Rosedale, or The Hamptons, given the volume of speed limit signs per square kilometer!
I walk along many of these streets which rarely have cars traveling on them. No logic or value to the whole exercise because nothing has changed, and why would it. A complete waste of money, and a minor matter, an eyesore.
So now I read how they want to install speed cameras. I guess they want revenue without wanting to specifically call it increased taxes. I guess they saw how many millions Toronto is collecting and they got stars in their eyes. We are talking about a short stretch of road and how much can we grab from those who missed seeing the warning sign! Call it what it is!