As announced in late February, Durham Region now says it has deployed Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras in some school zones and designated Community Safety Zones on Regional Roads.
At this time, the ASE cameras will be operating in data collection mode and no fines will be issued, said a municipal statement.
Speed is a contributing factor in about one third of fatal collisions in Canada. Speed limits are not guidelines—they are laws. Reducing speed is the best way to reduce the frequency and severity of collisions in our community, said the statement.
Durham Region is one of many municipalities across Ontario using ASE to create safer roads, it said.
This initiative is in support of Durham Vision Zero, a long-term plan to ensure a safe transportation system that sees no lives lost or serious injuries on Durham’s roadways.
If a vehicle exceeds the posted speed limit, the ASE system captures an image that is stored and reviewed by a Provincial Offences Act officer. If warranted, an offence notice (fine), with a digital copy of the image, is sent to the registered owner of the vehicle within 30 days. The offence notice is issued to the registered owner, with no demerit points issued.
The fines for speeding in Ontario under the Highway Traffic Act are:
- Less than 20 kilometres per hour over the speed limit: $3 for each kilometre per hour that the motor vehicle was driven over the speed limit.
- 20 kilometres per hour or more but less than 30 kilometres per hour over the speed limit: $4.50 for each kilometre per hour that the motor vehicle was driven over the speed limit.
- 30 kilometres per hour or more but less than 50 kilometres per hour over the speed limit: $7 for each kilometre per hour that the motor vehicle was driven over the speed limit.
Fines in Community Safety Zones and Construction Zones are doubled.
Fines are issued to the owner of the vehicle, so no demerit points are issued.
Locations of the speed cameras
School Zones:
- St. Issac Jogues Catholic School – Pickering (Finch Avenue)
- Brock High School – Brock (Cameron Street)
Community Safety Zones:
- St. Mary High School – Pickering (Whites Road)
- Beaverton Downtown – Brock (Simcoe Street)
- Claremont Public School – Pickering (Central Street)
- Elizabeth B Phin Public School – Pickering (Altona Road)
- Ajax High School – Ajax (Bayly Street East)
- Sinclair Secondary School – Whitby (Taunton Road East)
- Anderson Collegiate Vocational Institute – Whitby (Anderson Street)
- Paul Dwyer High School – Oshawa (Rossland Road)
- Adelaide McLaughlin Public School – Oshawa (Stevenson Road North)
- St. Stephen’s United Church – Oshawa (Simcoe Street North)
- Ontario Tech University/Durham College – Oshawa (Simcoe Street North)
- SJ Phillips Public School – Oshawa (Simcoe Street North)
- Beau Valley Public School – Oshawa (Ritson Road North)
- Vincent Massey Public School – Oshawa (Adelaide Avenue East)
- Eastdale Collegiate Vocational Institute – Oshawa (Harmony Road)
- Courtice Downtown – Clarington (Regional Highway 2)
- Goodwood Community Centre – Uxbridge (Regional Highway 47)
- Hamlet of Sandford – Uxbridge (Regional Road 11)
- Bowmanville High School – Clarington (Liberty Street)
- Sunderland Downtown – Brock (Regional Road 10)
- Cannington Downtown – Brock (Cameron Street)
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you money grubbing m——–f———s. you can’t get enough from taxing the bejesus out of us so u install these. why don’t u learn to control spending. dan the mayor u are a king sized a hole.
if these cameras had anything to do with safety i’d support them but they don’t. they are just another money maker for durham. how many deaths have there been at these locations. none that i know of. going to give people a ticket for going a couple of kms over. f—in idiots.
Just another reason to leave oshawa
Bruce, how about you just follow the speed limits and not act like an uneducated moron?
now they can lay off some traffic cops and let these “robots” do the work instead.
Bob Rae did well at the polls after doing this same thing. Hmmmm.
“reviewed by a Provincial Offences Act officer. If warranted…”
If warranted? Guaranteed these idiots will send out tickets for even the smallest infractions. I highly doubt they will use common sense and account for the flow of traffic speed. This is just a money grab, period.
You can now look forward to getting a ticket in the mail for going 51 in a 50 zone. Being upset about this does not make you an uneducated moron.
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THERE NEEDS TO BE RED LIGHT CAMERAS and SPEED ONES AT THE INTERSECTION OF WILSON ROAD and KING STREET. IT IS RIDICULOUS ON THE THOSE STREETS .. ESPECIALLY AT NITE TIME EVEN WORSE
those are my thoughts too.
nothing a can of spray paint can’t fix.
Everyone that gets a ticket should challenge it. If you are not captured driving the car they cannot prove it was you driving. Innocent until they can prove you guilty.
Can’t wait to vote in the next election and get rid of these morons.
I think it would be a much better use of time and money to better synchronize the lights. For instance travelling either north or south on Ritson all one gets is red lights from Athol to Bond at the very least. Traffic is stop and go every single time and backs up for the timing.
Would LOVE to see one put on West Shore Blvd. in Pickering!!!!! Feel like I live on a racetrack a lot of times!!!
Time to move out of Durham. Will sell my home for the bad guys To bring down the city. No jobs more taxes. Got one of this ridiculous ticket today
They need a speed camera on Whites Rd south of Strouds before highway2 in Pickering. High school there and people fly past at 70 all the time. Ridiculous. Wake up people These Yoyos who think cameras aren’t the answer need to take the bus. We don’t need morons on the road here. Too many lives are being lost due to speed and school kids aren’t as careful as they should be watching out for traffic. Slow down Relax. Leave earlier
this is just stupid, whoever idea is this.
Lots of pedestrians hit all the time. People speed and on cell phones at the same time are out of control. Bike riders hit Relax people. Take a pill Let’s super size these cameras. If we all slow down our insurance would go down. Why should I pay for a bunch of law breakers who can’t slow down😡
You too can get a ticket for going 2 kms over. That should concern us all. These should only be giving out tickets for those going more than 10 km over
Just read this, so scary. Not too sure if there are piles of tickets coming on their way. I might be going few kms over all the time 😭
Speed kills. Enjoy the ride. Not the wake🤕
Everyone should challenge these tickets in court and flood their system to the point where they have to throw most of them out!!!✊
Be nice. We’re talking about school zones. School kids walking. Slow down.
King st.east should be 60 not 50.Funny how they dropped the limit just in time for this,a joke
I try to go the speed limit but there are times when that is very difficult. As an example, Conlin Road west of Thickson was a 50 Km zone for a very long time. There were lots of tickets issued for going faster as the police could pick up a car as it turned from Thickson onto Conlin from their location in the parking lot of the storage business. There is no “safety” reason for the posted speed limit there. It has since increased to 60 km/hr then reduces to 50 post the turn around. I reduce my speed to 50 and have angry drivers behind me who are also not driving at excessive speeds. Police seem to be positioned to ticket drivers who do not reduce from 60 to 50 in that stretch. That’s why it feels like an artificial set up to issue tickets for what is not really unsafe driving. They could change the speed limit to 30 km/hr and catch drivers who exceed that speed all day. But that would be too obvious. And ,it wouldn’t make that stretch of road safer.
Bruce is right, it is just a money grab and a lazy ass way of trying to solve the issue of speeding. They should implement traffic calming measures on these roads as they have done in other areas and countries like Ireland. These are permanent solutions and really work just like roundabouts do. But our politicians never have money for common sense ideas
Late to this lively discussion, but I’ve looked at speed camera programs worldwide, and can report they are easily the most effective way to control speeding. They also rarely produce much revenue vs the costs (precisely because people do in fact slow down). Drivers often don’t realize that what seems an appropriate speed to them inside the car can be frighteningly fast to those outside, and that even small increments in speed exponentially increase both the chances of accident and the consequences in injury. Perhaps those complaining could just slow down.
U go 10 over u get a ticket and they don’t even put the camera where u can see it they are hiding them now just blood they did with the on on simcoe st North by SJ Phillips Public School
There are big signs out warning you of speed cameras. Slow down and you would read them easily. They’re mostly in school zones where the neighborhood kids are walking and not paying attention to the indi races surrounding them. If your in a big hurry take the highway and do your thing We have enough idiots out there running people over
Most drivers are watching their speedometers rather than the road now. Is that going to save lives? For one, I am doing 40 km/h everywhere in Oshawa. E-bikes and grandmas with walkers can pass me if they want to.
Cannot wait for the next municipal election.
Cameras are working. I notice people slowing in those areas
I do agree that the speed limit on Conlin Road ,west of Thickson did feel like an artificial unnecessary trap purely designed to generate revenue for the region. It’s now 60 km and the police set up were the limit reduces from 60 to 50 and the lanes expand to 4. They also set up at the lights at Durham College on Conlin. I love doing the speed limit on this particular piece of roadway because it’s always entertaining to see people speed past me and get justifiably stopped. I also enjoy denying the region the easy money. What’s the hurry?
The automated ticketing does cause some distraction for me but I do try to stay under the limit which is sometimes difficult to do in traffic. Years ago I received a ticket for speeding 5km over and I fought it as it did seem petty and harassing. It was thrown out thankfully.
I think it’s ridiculous that you lowered the speed limit to 50 from 60 it’s just more money for the city it’s bad enough that we pay our taxes the roads haven’t been fixed it’s just a cash cow that’s all it is