City-owned vehicles, including buses, ambulances, fire trucks and police cars, have been ticketed for speeding and running red lights twice a day for the past year by Toronto’s automated enforcement system.
Data and tickets issued obtained by CTV News Toronto through a freedom of information request show pictures of buses, supervisor’s vehicles, and special constable cars speeding and running red lights, sometimes twice in one night.
“We want to catch anyone who is driving unsafely,” said Toronto City Councillor Shelley Carroll, who has been a proponent of the camera program as a route to reduce road fatalities.TTC vehicles got 14 red light camera tickets in the past year, and 129 speeding tickets. City vehicles were issued 167 speeding tickets and nine red light tickets.
The volume is much higher than anticipated, Carroll said, but no one expected that drivers in Toronto in general would trigger upwards of 200,000 pictures taken by the cameras in a year.
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