this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
65 points (88.2% liked)

Canada

10115 readers
431 users here now

What's going on Canada?

Related Communities

🍁 Meta

🗺️ Provinces / Territories

🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.

🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer

💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.

💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales

🗣️ Politics

🍁 Social / Culture

Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
otter@lemmy.ca
mp3@lemmy.ca
otter@piefed.ca
mp3@piefed.ca
65
Brampton petition calls for ‘immediate removal’ of all speed enforcement cameras (www.insauga.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to c/canada@lemmy.ca
31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

They believe they have a God given right to break the speed limit

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] caitp@mstdn.social -3 points 1 day ago (5 children)

@Davriellelouna I dunno, I think there are other ways -- obviously nobody likes paying a fine for doing a pretty reasonable speed with no traffic or pedestrians around, even if it is a CSZ. like, <60 in a 50 zone that is a 40 CSZ when there is nobody around, doesn't feel fair. But also those speed cameras are not just spotting traffic, theyre always watching you. The discomfort with them is real

[–] caitp@mstdn.social -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

@Davriellelouna what could we do instead? more transit, more density, being able to walk to more places we need to go. but instead we get speed traps harassing people who are honestly acting pretty reasonable (ok, obviously there are maniacs who are not reasonable -- but they all drive benzes and bmws, so a fine probably isnt stopping them)

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Roads should be designed so that it's uncomfortable to drive above the targeted speed limit.

Things like road narrowing, speed bumps, bulb outs, lane adjustments, speed humps, pavement decorations, one way chokepoints, etc.

Current the Ontario road geometry supplement requires streets and roads to be geometrically designed to be at least 20kph higher than the posted limit. Well guess what, you want to naturally drive the design speed instead of posted.

Lower design speeds and target the remaining maniacs.

Quick video explaining speed of the measures I brought up (and why they work): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmxBcrXpClg

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

everything you say is true.

But thinking that cities will redesign their streets without public pressure? I doubt it.

[–] Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Thankfully, lessons from Europe seem to be penetrating Canada now; at least in the more urban areas. I saw some fantastic progress living in Montréal. Ottawa has the right ideas despite the master plan not being clear to people yet. Toronto was on the right path, but we'll see what provincial pressures do. My current town of Kingston is late to the party, but we've got momentum in the right direction.

We spent 50+ years changing our built environment to "optimise" for the car, even with the best intentions it's going to take time to change again.

load more comments (3 replies)