Several city councillors say it’s important for the Toronto Police Service (TPS) to ‘get to the bottom of’ how many automated speeding or red light camera tickets its officers get – and how many have no lawful excuse.
Several city councillors say it’s important for the Toronto Police Service (TPS) to ‘get to the bottom of’ how many automated speeding or red light camera tickets its officers get – and how many have no lawful excuse.
Agreed the limits on roads do sometimes feel a little loosely enforced and in some cases car traffic just seems to default to the speed of the individual in front of them.
Though the issue IMO is not with the signage itself. The issue really is with the overall design of the roadway. In north america we seem to not have a proper classification in our roadways. Such that everything is either a hwy or a road, or more precisely a “strode”, neither a street or a road.
In actuality we should break these down and standardize layouts/designs beter. For example all roadways should fall into only one of the following categories, going from highest speed to slowest speed.
“Arterial roads are similar to hyws in that there are no driveways in/off them into plazas/malls. They function like a hwy’s but at lower capacity and speed, they may only be one lane or at maximum two.”
When roadways have their speed dropped the roadway should be redesigned to accommodate this posted limit. This includes the narrowing of lanes, the addition of crossways and crosswalks, speed bumps and speed cushions, benches and planters, trees, all this works together to make higher speeds feel “uncomfortable” and thus drives slow down to the new designed speed as opposed to the posted limit.