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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 23/10/2025

We have sent out a letter to the premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, opposing his plan to remove speed cameras, which have been shown to overwhelmingly increase safety on our roads. Thanks @hansonthebike.bsky.social for putting the letter together, and @pbickerton.bsky.social for the great graphics!

Letter sent to the premier of Ontario opposing the removal of speed cameras. Text follows :

To:
Premier of Ontario
Legislative Building
Queen’s Park
Toronto, ON, M7A 1A1
(by email)
Ottawa, October 22, 2025
Re: Automatic Speed Enforcement Cameras
Premier Ford,
We are extremely concerned about your directive to remove automatic speed enforcement (ACE)
cameras in Ontario. Along with the Association of Municipalities, the CAA and the Ontario Association
of Chiefs of Police as well as many municipal leaders, we believe in the evidence that previously
collected data show: fining people who don’t comply with speed limits helps: it leads to drastic safety
improvements.
This makes a good case for continuing the use of cameras to maintain speed compliance. The
ultimate goal of speed enforcement is obviously that people adhere to posted speed limits. Existing
data shows that speed compliance quickly improves and is maintained after cameras are installed.
Fewer and fewer tickets are being issued by each camera every year.
This trend is already happening: in Ottawa, as the enclosed graphs show, speeds have considerably
dropped at road segments where cameras have been placed. Speed cameras work! Cameras in
Ottawa are overwhelmingly placed in areas near schools. Removing cameras would recreate
dangerous situations for children in those school zones. And let's not forget people with disabilities
and our aging population, who may take longer to cross roads.
Many safety experts strongly support the use of automatic speed cameras as does the majority of
Ontario drivers (73%). In Ottawa, speed compliance went up from 16% to 81% in speed camera
zones; the instances of high end speeding in those zones went down from 14% to less than 1%.
Those are impressive results.

Second page of the letter to the premier of Ontario opposing removal of speed cameras, text follows :

Therefore we ask you to reconsider an end to speed enforcement with cameras and allow technology
to do its work to protect the lives of Ontarians. Using cameras allows police officers to do other
important work. This is about safety for every Ontario resident, not a cash grab.
Respectfully,
Strong Towns Ottawa
Encl: three graphs
About Strong Towns Ottawa
Strong Towns Ottawa is a local chapter of Strong Towns. We advocate for a more financially resilient and livable
Ottawa. We aim to build a safer city that enables all of us to choose the way we want to live. This includes
investing in various transportation options, housing types, safer streets, mixed-use neighbourhoods, local
businesses, and more.

A graph of data showing the speed limit compliance in areas where the speed cameras have been put in place in Ottawa. The x axis reads : "Age of ASE Camera (days)" and the y axis reads : "Speed Limit Compliance (%)".

The lines on the graph are all of the different road segments where the cameras have been put in place. As the graph moves further to the right, the compliance goes up, reaching close to 100% for many of the cameras

Graph of public data with the x-axis reading : "Age of ASE Camera (days)", y-axis : "High end Speeders (%)". As the graph moves further to the right, the amount of high-end speeders drops off substantially for all of the segments of the roads where speed cameras have been put in place.

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Gof9GGof3 @gof9ggof3.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

What power does the Premier have if all municipalities decide to just refuse to comply? Citizen rebellion.

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Strong Towns Ottawa @strongtownsottawa.ca · 23/10/2025

The final graph that couldn't fit on the first post. Even more data showing that these overwhelmingly work.

A graph showing the average speed in sections where speed cameras have been put in place, the x-axis being months of the year, starting from July 2020, and going to February 2025, incrementing one month at a time. The y-axis is speeds, starting at 20km/h and going up at 10km/h intervals to the top which is 70km/h.

As time goes on, the segments of roads where the speed cameras were put in place show average speed dropping.

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steve-clark.bsky.social @steve-clark.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It’s too bad there are not legal routes to pursue when a government knowingly and willingly puts citizens at risk of death or injury. They have the facts but choose to ignore them.

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