From The Star, August 18, 2025
In Vaughan, after thousands of tickets were issued and countless complaints followed, the city decided to pause its speed-camera program. In Brampton, there was a 5,000-plus-person petition to shut the devices down and stop using them. A Toronto councillor tried to make a motion to do something similar in the city, decrying them as speed traps.
And the cameras themselves are taking a beating. In Guelph, two speed cameras were knocked over in the past week. Earlier this spring, nine cameras were defaced in Vaughan, including some on hydro poles that required 50-foot ladders to reach. (One man was arrested, and police are still looking for others.) In late May, a speed camera was stolen in Paris, Ont.
The complaints about speed cameras are legion: They’re not visible enough; the speed limits they’re enforcing aren’t fair; they don’t work; they don’t get results.
In Vaughan, the speed camera program was paused shortly after it was launched because more than 32,000 tickets were issued to drivers in just three weeks, (from one single camera) which was a shock to everyone.
