Mono Mayor John Creelman has brought his concerns regarding Automated Speed Enforcement in the Town of Mono.
The system is currently permitted in designated Community Safety Zones, where the speed limit doesn’t exceed 79 kmlh, including School Zones.
Creelman sent the following letter to multiple provincial leaders, including Ontario Minister of Transportation, Caroline Mulroney.
Automated Speed Enforcement
As far back as January 2020,1 personally spoke with you about problems with restrictive conditions that effectively rule out deployment of Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) in all
but urban and built-up areas.
I followed up with detailed emails to your staff and subsequently raised the issue with you again at a ROMA delegation meeting.
ASE is currently permitted onlyin designated Community Safety Zones where the speed limit does not exceed 79 kmlh and School Zones (HTA Section 205.1 (l) (o) ond (b)).
This ties our hands and deprives us of a needed tool to discourage speeding and reckless driving.
We desperately need the option to deploy ASE on 80 km/h roads where speeding is chronic, epidemic and out of control.
Speeding Fines under the Highway Traffic Act
You as well as the Attorney General are in receipt of correspondence from the Town of Mono as far back as 2019 regarding inadequate set fine levels for speeding offences.
We also wrote to the Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice who notionally sets POA fines.
She deferred back to the Province.
Basic set fines for speeding have not increased in o quarter century while speeding has become increasingly epidemic on our roads.
As stated in one of our previous letters, “the amount of the fines should be increased to o level thot will provide o deterrent commensurate with the risk such offenders pose to the safety and wellbeing of other drivers and pedestrians”.
Local Highway issues in Mono
Over the years, we have brought a number of issues to the attention of your Ministry.
ln no particular order they include among other things…
-The need for signalization at the intersection of Highway l0 and Dufferin Road 8
-The outside westbound lane on Highway 9 just beyond the lst Line EHS Mono vanishes only to reemerge a number of meters later.
-The absence of advance green signals at the intersection of Highway l0 and Dufferin Road l6
-Modernization of highway lighting, in particular on the south side of Highway 9 east of Orangeville.
For more on what’s going on in the Town of Mono, head to www.townofmono.com
