afransen
Senior Member
Countries with much better road safety results than us tend to have fewer signs, not more. Cameras and signs are lazy attempts to work around bad design and engineering.
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bearcat
Active Member
Lol I don't think that's an argument against speed cameras. Based on the number of fake CRA spam calls I used to get we should close down the CRA lol.
afransen
Senior Member
I get scam calls, texts and emails for Amazon and several banks. Shut them all down too.
trafficexplorerON
New Member
I wasn’t saying to get rid of cameras, I was just saying these were a thing
Northern Light
Superstar
More (new) sidewalks set to die before every having lived.
Jon Burnside trying and likely succeeding in killing some more.
Jon Burnside trying and likely succeeding in killing some more.
evandyk
Senior Member
They should just cancel the road resurfacing if the community doesn't want to have a modern road.
txlseries4
Active Member
‘Big concern’: Parkside speed camera axed for 6th time despite new surveillance camera
One of Toronto’s most frequently vandalized speed cameras was again chopped down — this time under the watch of a newly installed surveillance camera.
www.ctvnews.ca
"The Parkside Drive camera, which re-entered service just last week after being vandalized in May, has now been cut for the sixth time in nine months."
"Last month, police said 11 other speed cameras across the city were also vandalized within the span of a single week."
Mihairokov
Active Member
Interesting how they're incapable of finding out who is doing this.
bearcat
Active Member
How could they realistically? Someone dresses up in black hoodie and ski mask and gloves (not that they would even check their fingerprints), appears from the trees in High Park at 3 AM, cuts the camera, and disappears into the trees. Even if caught on camera there's no way to identify them.
Really unless there's a police officer there 24/7, there's no way they're going to catch the culprit.
The only solution is to redesign the speed camera so it sits high up on a hydro pole.
lenaitch
Senior Member
Even with that; never underestimate determination:
Thirty three poles cut down for the copper:
4 Ontario men charged after 33 hydro poles cut down for their copper | Globalnews.ca
The Ontario Provincial Police say four men are facing charges after 33 hydro poles were cut down and the copper wires were stolen off the poles.
globalnews.ca
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Get on with redesigning Parkside Drive and actually doing the redesign. Signs are useless if the roadway is designed for a higher speed. Narrower lanes, bicycle lanes, wider sidewalks, chicanes, narrowing corner radii, continuous sidewalks, etc. should be considered, but most importantly stop listening to the automobile lobby.‘Big concern’: Parkside speed camera axed for 6th time despite new surveillance camera
One of Toronto’s most frequently vandalized speed cameras was again chopped down — this time under the watch of a newly installed surveillance camera.
"The Parkside Drive camera, which re-entered service just last week after being vandalized in May, has now been cut for the sixth time in nine months."
"Last month, police said 11 other speed cameras across the city were also vandalized within the span of a single week."
evandyk
Senior Member
Yeah, if the vandals want to make Parkside ungovernable with cameras, do it right once and for all. Give the people what they want. They don't want cameras, give them road redesign.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
In the meantime, use TPS to catch the speeders and get demerit points. The cameras don't give out demerit points.
Northern Light
Superstar
Interestingly, at Ctte today, one of the sidewalks proposed to be scrapped was saved.
One public facing submission was made on the subject above which sought to save the sidewalk on Tinder from deletion.
One public facing submission was made on the subject above which sought to save the sidewalk on Tinder from deletion.