Kingston’s radar speed cameras making impact in school zones

Kingston, Ont.’s 2 radar speed cameras, installed connected Norman Rogers and Lancaster drives, person issued 588 charges successful September alone, according to the city.

The cameras are portion of a two-year aviator programme aimed astatine improving velocity compliance successful schoolhouse zones.

“These cameras volition rotate betwixt 16 locations during the program,” said Mark Dickson, manager of Transportation Systems for the City of Kingston.

Lancaster Drive was selected arsenic 1 of the archetypal locations owed to its history, including a fatal collision 2 years agone involving a 10-year-old pupil astatine Mother Teresa Catholic Elementary School.

Dickson noted that collision past was a cardinal origin successful determining the program’s locations.

“The absorption of our programme with the AHC has been to trim speeds successful schoolhouse frontages and schoolhouse areas,” helium said.

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The cameras look to beryllium effectual successful improving velocity compliance. “The velocity bounds compliance … has accrued from 33 per cent to 75 per cent successful the lawsuit of Norman Rogers and has accrued from 44 per cent to 72 per cent successful the lawsuit of Lancaster,” Dickson explained.

At the extremity of the aviator program, the metropolis volition measure the program’s outcomes to find its aboriginal direction.