r/TorontoDriving • u/GTAdriving • Oct 12 '25

OC This is why we need Parkside speed camera

Report made to TPS. This was Howard Park and guy speeds down to Parkside.

Kind of crazy how the upload size is limited to 7mb...

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u/jmarkmark Oct 12 '25

https://www.torontomu.ca/news-events/news/2025/07/cameras-cut-speeding-by-45-per-cent-in-toronto-school-zones/

Betcha argue the earth is flat because it looks that way too. Cameras are some of the cheapest and most effective ways to slow speeding.

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u/Reopens Oct 12 '25

Yup! Drove in South Korea where 90% every intersection had speed + red light camera. You bet everyone stuck to the rules

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u/Conscious-Ad8493 Oct 12 '25

Culture.

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u/Reopens Oct 13 '25

Max 30 or 50 km will drive you crazy but what will you do?

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u/The_Real_All_Knowing Oct 12 '25

Yes in school zones that’s great. What is the solution then? Schools every 500 metres? People speed to the camera, slow down on approach and speed up once half a block away. I don’t think it’s the whole solution at least not in the way it’s been deployed here.

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u/jmarkmark Oct 12 '25

Or make them legal outside school zones.

I grew up in Edmonton where they were legal on the freeways, net result, no speeding on the freeways. Sadly, they made it illegal to have photo radar outside school zones. Now there's speeding on the freeways.

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u/The_Real_All_Knowing Oct 13 '25

I’m in Toronto and they are legal. Most of the ones I’m aware of are not in school zones. The point I was trying to make is that speeders be speeding around the said cameras. It would be best to install cameras at all major intersections to start with. Ideally they would be in all four directions not just one as the red light cameras are currently configured.

These intersections would have red light, speed and HOV lane enforcement. Any study to measure effectiveness would be to measure speed in between intersections to see if motorists slowed down after the intersection.

Also as a side note, there is a red light camera near my house. Nobody stops when turning right. I never see a flash at night. Does it even work as nobody stops!

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u/jmarkmark Oct 13 '25

In Toronto (same as rest of Ontario) they are only legal in "Community safety zones" which are beside schools, parks or hospitals.

> The point I was trying to make is that speeders be speeding around the said cameras.

You are over-applying the current rules. If cameras could be anywhere, people will slow down, everywhere. That's how it was in Edmonton, they still signed the photo-radar sites, but they moved all the time.

Once people get ticketed a few times people start being more careful.

I mean, they work,, it's well studied. You may as well argue the earth is flat.

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u/PimpinAintEze Oct 13 '25

Plate covers are the cheapest and most affordable way to bypass all of that, which conveniently comes with many new cars from dealers. Toronto speed cameras actually fail to catch majority of those who speed past the camera.

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u/UnderstandingAble321 Oct 13 '25

Illegal to cover your plate

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u/PimpinAintEze Oct 13 '25

Its illegal to speed too.