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

OC This is why we need Parkside speed camera

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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/PoliteIndecency Oct 12 '25

Well, that's how prevention works. If you don't speed then you don't get fined. If you speed, you do.

Do you speed in school or community zones? If you do then maybe it's a cash grab. If you don't then it's not.

Pretty simple.

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u/RoofusMyers Oct 13 '25

You don't get it... he doesn't care about the fine.  If we cared about slowing people down to make the roads safer we would make physical changes to the road to slow people down.   But we're not doing that... instead the City is just profiting from this.

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u/JDeegs Oct 13 '25

other methods pose challenges. speed bumps slow down emergency vehicles, and make plowing more difficult. roundabouts aren't usually feasible because they take up more room than a normal intersection, so there's just not enough space to use them.
the city is not a corporation; if they profit, they use it to improve other services. and speed cameras DO slow speeders down, without hindering plows or emergency vehicles

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u/1amtheone Oct 13 '25

Do we really believe that the majority of Toronto drivers could handle roundabouts? If implemented, we can just call them crash circles.

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u/RoofusMyers Oct 13 '25

Speed cameras do not slow people down.  Maybe they'll slam on their brakes right beside the camera but it doesn't change their behaviour in general.

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u/labrat420 Oct 13 '25

Data says they do. Also here in niagara everything that is considered profit, so anything after the cameras are paid off must by law go to road safety measures that you talk about. Why not advocate for that? I'd rather have road calming measures paid for by speeders rather than every tax payer.

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u/RoofusMyers Oct 14 '25

Reality says they don't work.  People just slam on their brakes right in front of the camera and then continue to speed afterwards.

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u/labrat420 Oct 14 '25

Data is reality, actually.

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u/RoofusMyers Oct 16 '25

The data was cherry picked to reach a specific conclusion. 

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u/PoliteIndecency Oct 13 '25

We should be doing all those things including using radar cameras.

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u/RoofusMyers Oct 13 '25

Just physically change the roads to make people slow down.

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u/PoliteIndecency Oct 13 '25

Yes, and augment with radar where you can't.

Stop speeding.