After more than 32,000 speeding tickets were handed out in just three weeks by new automated speed enforcement cameras in community safety zones, council in the City of Vaughan decided to pause the program.
Mayor Steven Del Duca put forward the motion last week to pause the tickets until September, when council is due to receive a report from staff on ways the city can create more effective signage about the presence of cameras.
You don’t need to go all in on road redesign. It is a cheap as putting some plastic barriers of a high visibility color or some planters and see how traffic behaves after. If it has the desired effect, it is then that you do the road redesign once it is due for maintenance. That’s how most places that have adopted people first designs tend to do it. Start with a pilot program without going all in. It also helps with skeptics that think car travel times will increase 2x as they can see the results before committing to a more permanent solution and allows for corrections not initially thought of.