At least three automated traffic speed cameras are being installed with about a dozen others already in place on South Etobicoke streets.
Motorists in a hurry are being warned of at least three new City of Toronto automated traffic enforcement cameras that are being installed on South Etobicoke streets.
The City is in the process of doubling the number of speed cameras on our streets from 75 to 150 cameras.
Signs have already been put up warning drivers there will be speed cameras in those places as the City is required to give a 90-day notice.
Cameras are being installed on Birmingham Street, just west of Kipling Avenue; Stanley Avenue, near Elizabeth Street; Bloor St. W., just east of Dundas Street W., and Kipling Avenue, just south of New Toronto Street.
A large number of the $50,000 traffic cameras are vandalized, flipped over or have their lens spray painted to avert tickets
The devices are also planned for Sixth Street, south of Lake Shore Blvd. W., and Thirty First Street, near Ash Crescent, according to the City’s website. The cameras are already in place at many major intersections.
City officials said the new cameras will include 25 in permanent pole-mounted locations and the other 50 rotating every three to six months in the wards they are installed.
The devices are installed along busy roadway, or near school zones; where pedestrian safety and speeding are an issue.
City workers are concerned that a large number of the $50,000 cameras are vandalized as one famously targeted on Parkside Drive that was cut down twice. Others like one on Horner Avenue was repeatedly shoved to the ground until it was removed by the City.
You can look out for more of these signs warning of traffic speed cameras as they bring in more than $10 million yearly to City coffers.
“We look at the data where we have the most challenges with speeding and other factors, collision history,” said Transportation Services General Manager Barbara Gray. “They’re put in places where speeding is traditionally an issue and where we have perhaps a higher rate of collisions historically.”
The average fine issued by the cameras is $107 with no demerit points. The City has collected more than $50 million since the money-earning program began in 2020.
Talks are also taking place with the TTC to add automatic enforcement cameras to streetcars to catch vehicles that illegally drive through when the streetcar doors are open endangering disembarking passengers.