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Motorists who live outside Ontario were caught burning red lights in Ottawa 4,900 times last year but got away without being fined.
That’s because the City of Ottawa didn’t yet have the legislative power to ticket out-of-province drivers whose vehicles were captured by red-light cameras. The other 17,658 drivers who blew reds at camera intersections in 2015 received tickets.
The city now has the legal power to send rogue, out-of-province drivers the violations thanks to a legislative change that started in January. But to this day, the city still doesn’t have a method to do so.
As the weeks pass, the city misses out on thousands in fines from red-light camera offences.
During the first three months of 2016, the city mailed 5,266 red-light camera violations.
However, another 1,241 fines could have been issued to out-of-province drivers if the city had a ticketing system for non-Ontario motorists.
The numbers for out-of-province scofflaws are high in Ottawa because the roads regularly carry Quebec-plated vehicles.
As reported recently by Postmedia, the city has the legal power to go after out-of-province offenders after Ontario announced a legislative change in 2013, but it still doesn’t have a mechanism to go about doing it. Multiple city departments are working on a solution to access the Quebec vehicle database and send tickets to the vehicle owners. It’s a joint effort of technology, finance, traffic and legal staff.
The city has said a tool could be ready by some time in the first three months of 2017.
Until then, non-Ontario drivers have little reason to fear Ottawa’s red-light cameras.
Meanwhile, drivers from Ontario and every other Ontario municipality are in danger of receiving a $325 fine for blowing through the camera-protected intersections on red lights in the nation’s capital.
The city said it doesn’t have the number of out-of-province drivers caught by red-light cameras in 2014 because the central processing centre in Toronto didn’t keep the information.
The city also said it doesn’t have statistics on how many red-light camera tickets have been challenged and dismissed by the courts during the red-light camera program.
There are 34 red-light cameras at Ottawa intersections. Another 20 cameras are scheduled to be installed at Ottawa intersections by the end of 2018.
The red-light camera program started in 2000 with two cameras and eight camera boxes. It expanded with cameras continuing to be shifted between locations throughout the city. Every red-camera box now has a camera installed.
To decide where to install new red-light cameras, the city typically looks at the intersections with a high number of preventable T-bone collisions, which are considered more dangerous than rear-end crashes.
jwilling@postmedia.com
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That’s because the City of Ottawa didn’t yet have the legislative power to ticket out-of-province drivers whose vehicles were captured by red-light cameras. The other 17,658 drivers who blew reds at camera intersections in 2015 received tickets.
The city now has the legal power to send rogue, out-of-province drivers the violations thanks to a legislative change that started in January. But to this day, the city still doesn’t have a method to do so.
As the weeks pass, the city misses out on thousands in fines from red-light camera offences.
During the first three months of 2016, the city mailed 5,266 red-light camera violations.
However, another 1,241 fines could have been issued to out-of-province drivers if the city had a ticketing system for non-Ontario motorists.
The numbers for out-of-province scofflaws are high in Ottawa because the roads regularly carry Quebec-plated vehicles.
As reported recently by Postmedia, the city has the legal power to go after out-of-province offenders after Ontario announced a legislative change in 2013, but it still doesn’t have a mechanism to go about doing it. Multiple city departments are working on a solution to access the Quebec vehicle database and send tickets to the vehicle owners. It’s a joint effort of technology, finance, traffic and legal staff.
The city has said a tool could be ready by some time in the first three months of 2017.
Until then, non-Ontario drivers have little reason to fear Ottawa’s red-light cameras.
Meanwhile, drivers from Ontario and every other Ontario municipality are in danger of receiving a $325 fine for blowing through the camera-protected intersections on red lights in the nation’s capital.
The city said it doesn’t have the number of out-of-province drivers caught by red-light cameras in 2014 because the central processing centre in Toronto didn’t keep the information.
The city also said it doesn’t have statistics on how many red-light camera tickets have been challenged and dismissed by the courts during the red-light camera program.
There are 34 red-light cameras at Ottawa intersections. Another 20 cameras are scheduled to be installed at Ottawa intersections by the end of 2018.
The red-light camera program started in 2000 with two cameras and eight camera boxes. It expanded with cameras continuing to be shifted between locations throughout the city. Every red-camera box now has a camera installed.
To decide where to install new red-light cameras, the city typically looks at the intersections with a high number of preventable T-bone collisions, which are considered more dangerous than rear-end crashes.
jwilling@postmedia.com
twitter.com/JonathanWilling
查看原文...
