TORONTO: The City of Toronto’s 50 Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) devices issued a total of 15,175 tickets between August 6 and September 5, the second month of issuing tickets to vehicles travelling in excess of the posted speed limit.
The program began on July 6. During this period, the ASE device on Renforth Drive near Lafferty Street (Ward 2 – Etobicoke Centre) issued the most tickets at 1,534, or 10 per cent of all tickets.
The highest fine of $682 was issued to four vehicles travelling at 86 km/h in 40 km/h speed limit zones by the devices on:
• Royalcrest Road, near Cabernet Circle (Ward 1 – Etobicoke North)
• Renforth Drive, near Lafferty Street (Ward 2 – Etobicoke Centre)
• Jameson Avenue, south of Laxton Avenue (Ward 4 – Parkdale-High Park)
• Caledonia Road, north of Rogers Road (Ward 9 – Davenport)
According to the data, the number of repeat offenders during the second month of issuing tickets was 1,198. The three most frequent repeat offenders each received seven tickets for speeding at Bicknell Avenue, south of Avon Drive (Ward 5 – York South-Weston); Caledonia Road, north of Rogers Road (Ward 9 – Davenport) and Murison Boulevard, near Curtis Crescent (Ward 25 – Scarborough-Rouge Park).
During the first month of enforcement, the ASE devices issued a total of 22,301 tickets to speeding vehicles and detected 2,239 repeat offenders.
The total payable fine amount includes a set fine, a victim fine surcharge and court costs. Automated Speed Enforcement tickets do not incur any demerit points and do not affect the driving record.
The 50 devices are installed city-wide on local, collector and arterial roads in Community Safety Zones near schools. Each ward has two ASE devices that capture and record images of speeding vehicles.
Mayor John Tory said: “This data continues to show the need for automated speed enforcement across our city. These speed cameras are focused on roads around schools to help keep kids safe. For drivers, the simplest way to avoid getting a ticket is to slow down.
Deploying automated speed enforcement is just one part of our Vision Zero Road Safety Plan that includes road redesign, lowering speed limits on hundreds of kilometers of streets, and other data-driven interventions.”