MAP: All locations of York Region speed, red-light cameras

Thestar.com
May 20, 2021
Jeremy Grimaldi

No one likes getting caught in a speed trap, but it's hard to argue the statistics on just how effective they can be.

Throughout the past year, more than half of fatal collisions in York Region have been linked to speeding, according to York Regional Police.

The region wants to lower these numbers and sees speed and red-light cameras as the ticket. The map below shows the locations of 40 red-light cameras in red and the 11 mobile speed cameras in blue.

Speed cameras will be in and around these locations for a month at a time during the school year, not permanently.

Red-light cameras have already worked effectively reducing T-bone collisions by 72 per cent at intersections with speed cameras between 2013 and 2018.

Now speed cameras are being rolled out around York Region schools and community zones, the only areas allowed to have them according to the Highway Traffic Act. The region's one speed camera will be rotating between a number of schools on main arteries each month as indicated on the map.

Statistics from around North America show positive results and suggest we may benefit from the same numbers.

Quebec saw as much as a 42-per-cent decline in collisions around speed traps; in Saskatchewan, speed-related collisions fell by 63 per cent and there were 51 per cent fewer injuries.

Meanwhile, New York City pedestrian injuries were reduced by 23 per cent in these areas.