An unforgiving traffic speed camera on the outskirts of Etobicoke is gaining notoriety as a top money earner for the City of Toronto.

The busy Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) camera pointed towards a nice stretch of road at Renforth Dr., near Lafferty St., in Etobicoke Centre, Ward 2, has issued 890 tickets against lead-footed motorists in a four-month period.

This ASE, as the system is called, includes 50 cameras that from its installation in July 2020 to October 2020, issued more than 54,000 tickets, which are mailed to the registered owner of the vehicles.

The Renforth Dr. traffic cam issued almost 900 tickets during that period, or about 12 per cent of the tickets mailed out.

The camera was also connected to the single biggest fine issued: $718 to a vehicle owner driving 89 km/h in a 40 km/h zone.

City officials said the most frequent repeat offender was a driver in Scarborough North, who received 17 tickets from a device located near Crow Trail and Bradstone Square.

They noted as the initial enforcement window continued, there was a notable reduction in both the overall number of tickets issued and also the number of repeat offenders.

The cameras were moved to other locations last November.

Mayor John Tory said one car was ticketed 12 times in a month.

From October 7 to 31, the last day before the cameras were moved, there were 5,174 tickets issued, with 251 repeat offenders.

The cameras were installed as a key part of the City’s Vision Zero plan to eliminate traffic-related fatalities.

For the first 90 days, motorists caught speeding received warning letters instead of tickets as part of a public education campaign.

Area residents say they are aware of the cash-collecting camera in their area and always slow down when leaving their homes.