Ontario’s transportation minister says speed cameras across the province are set to be removed in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday to ban them.
Ford has said speed cameras don’t work to slow drivers down — though evidence collected by municipalities and Hospital for Sick Children researchers says otherwise — and believes measures such as speed bumps, roundabouts and signs with flashing lights are more effective.
However, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria could not say when those measures would replace speed cameras.
He says there will be some temporary signage.
Liberal parliamentary leader John Fraser says it will make communities less safe.
The measures to ban speed cameras were contained in a red tape reduction bill, which the government fast-tracked, limiting debate and skipping public hearings.
