SPEED CAMERAS: Retired cop contravenes Speed Cameras

Posted on 11/23/2025 by szpinner

Here’s the situation

My wife is driving home at 12:03 AM on a Sunday night along Yonge Street. The speed limit on Yonge Street is 50 km an hour, but then unreasonably the speed limit changed to 40 km an hour for literally 100 feet. She did not see the sign and was going that 11 km over and received a ticket in the mail.

How is this beneficial for our school children?

At 11 km an hour a car can still stop safely because the speed limit originally was 50 km an hour so technically she would’ve only been doing 1 km over.

When I was policing, I would enforce the school zones DURING THE SCHOOL HOURS.  I would make sure that the children were safe DURING THE SCHOOL HOURS.  The speed cameras were put up in school zones to enforce speeding infractions DURING THE SCHOOL HOURS. 

I am all for speed measuring devices to be in school zones during school hours – Before school, lunch and after school. At all other times, the speed limit resumes at the posted signage.

At least Premier Ford  had the balls to bring in legislation, knowing full well that the speed measuring devices, operational for 24 hours, were nothing but a cash grab.

There’s an old saying “ IF YOU ABUSE IT YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE IT”.  This is exactly what the municipal politicians did.

Pickering resident

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One response to “SPEED CAMERAS: Retired cop contravenes Speed Cameras”

  1. Richard Szpin Avatar
    Richard Szpin

    Surely you jest, kind sir.
    Your wife was speeding. Violation, STOP. She earned her ticket.
    As a traffic regulator during your police service, you suggest that speed enforcement was at your discretion. Talk about nonsense.
    The law is there. You should have been enforcing it universally and without personal discretionary decision.
    The law is there for a reason and is not there to be used at the whim of the patrolling police officer. The regulatory device is set up at a school zone regardless of the time. The time of the school day is irrelevant to the posted speed regulation. No one can guess when a student may be a pedestrian in that school zone.
    The law is set up to regulate speed. It is not set up to regulate speed at certain times and off in other times. That is as ridiculous as it sounds.
    If the law says 40 kph, that’s the speed limit. 24/7, not just between 9-4 pm. It’s the zone, not the time that is being regulated. Laws are not enforced by the hour.
    The Premier is playing politics, and playing it badly. Provincial governments are not there to override municipal ones. Ford is stepping into a jurisdicational area in which he does not belong. Municipalities are independent entities that pass bylaws relative to their jurisdictions. Am I mistaken in the belief that speed limit regulation within the boundaries of a city in Ontario are the jurisdicational responsibility of the relevant City.
    What’s “IF YOU ABUSE IT YOU’RE GOING TO LOSE IT” got to do with speed regulation. The speed limit is there to regulate traffic speed. Not because people like it, or people favour it or people feel it is acceptable. It’s the law. Exceed the speed, pay the price. Fair enough.
    Statistics, research and authoritative studies confirm that traffic cameras regulate traffic successfully. They do not mention anything about cash or cash grabbing.
    Speed and you’ll pay. Obey the law, no violation, no infraction payment due.
    How does the logic escape you?

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