Last Updated on: 1st August 2025, 10:37 am
Make speed camera signs bigger, brighter, and bolder, driver says after $88 ticket
I’ve got a better idea. What if, instead of more signage, there were less signage and you all just, like, drove properly?
In a perfect world, there would be no signs announcing speed cameras at all. The one announcing the speed limit is all you really need. The speed limit, in case you’ve forgotten, isn’t a suggestion. It’s a regulation. One which you flout at not just your own risk, but also mine. Just like any other gamble, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And if you have to lose, a ticket is a much better way of doing so than killing a bunch of people because you’re too important to slow the fuck down.
Can those cameras be a cash grab? Yes. Is that a problem? No. Not when those from whom the cash is being grabbed could have so easily prevented its grabbing. If they can’t even bother to do that, then grab away, cameras. Grab away. Grab enough and maybe we can even use all that money to pay for things like municipal snow removal so that those like me who will never have the privilege of driving our own guided missiles can at least safely navigate the sidewalks.
Dull signage is among several beefs Wang has with speed cameras in school zones.
He doesn’t like that they operate around the clock when schools are closed. He thinks tickets are too costly, and he’s frustrated by a misunderstanding about the appeal process that derailed his ticket challenge.
He’s not buying the government’s argument that cameras in school zones are about making roads safer for schoolchildren.
“I personally don’t feel like I have done anything wrong, given the circumstances,” he said.
Christ, what a whiny little bitch. But he’s a whiny little bitch who does have a bit of a gripe under our current system, assuming he’s telling the truth.
Wang is upset about his $88 ticket for driving 53 km/h past Laurentian Public School, where regional council has dropped the limit to 40 km/h from 50 as a safety measure.
A sign on Westmount Road East announces the camera. Wang says his view of it was obscured by a road construction sign that was directly in his eye line when he turned onto Westmount from a plaza.“I never saw it,” he said.
The Kitchener man, who owns a language school, was ticketed for an infraction in May. Last week there was still road construction near the school and camera sign.
But again, I remind you all that this whole thing could have likely been avoided if our man here had simply obeyed the sign he could see, that being the one with the speed limit on it. And honestly, even he should be on my side here, because if there were no camera sign for him to not have seen, he’d have been nabbed fair and square and have had nothing to complain about since he admits he was speeding.