Top 10 intersections by number of tickets (both speeding and red light):
- 127 Street at 126 Avenue — 156,565
- Gateway Boulevard at 34 Avenue — 128,473
- 170 Street at 118 Avenue — 80,607
- 50 Street at Ellerslie Road — 74,364
- Yellowhead Trail at 107 Street — 71,954
- Mark Messier Trail at Campbell Road — 68,876
- Gateway Boulevard at Whitemud Drive — 63,255
- Fox Drive at Fort Edmonton Park Road — 59,424
- 170 Street at 95 Avenue — 43,550
- 97 Street at 122 Avenue — 35,952
The automated enforcement program in Edmonton generated 29.86 million dollars in 2022. Source: Automated Traffic Enforcement Report 2022
I don’t disagree that there might be better ways to use police but the cars in the overpasses are just contractors with speed cameras, I think. There’s some regulation that means a person has to be there. I don’t think they are police. I also think rules governing photo radar are provincially mandated.
If I’m wrong, please explain as I would like to know the truth.
In this instance most of them were cops out of cruisers, with radar guns. Lots of photo radar too, don’t get me wrong. But these were bonafide cops, you probably had half to 3/4s of a million dollars of salary sitting on overpasses.
It’s your tax dollars though, I mean if you guys are ok with that, by all means carry on.
Ok, I’ll take your word for it.
For the record, I’m not ok with it. If people behaved sensibly we wouldn’t need speed limits or police. You may have noticed this is not the case.
I think it’s a waste of money we could avoid if people didn’t act like idiots.
The things is, we do have police and if we don’t have speed cameras, those cops are going to chase that revenue by pulling people over instead.
A cop pulling over a speeder is way more dangerous to the general public than a speed camera and it’s also far more disruptive to the general flow of traffic. I fully expect this ultimately cost far more than the cameras. So, I’ll take the cameras.
The easiest way to get rid of them is to stop speeding. Once the revenue they earn is negligible they will go away. This has the interesting side effect of you not getting speeding tickets.
I think you have a very fair and rational stance. I’m not necessarily against radar and traffic control either, but just like everything else, there’s doing it and then there is overkill.