A Windsor city councillor wants a report on red light cameras and photo radar.
Ward 2 councillor Fabio Costante raised the issue during question period at Monday’s council meeting.
Costante asked administration for a report on the cost and effectiveness of the equipment used by other municipalities.
"It's being done in other municipalities, so I just want to get a comparative study, look at the costs and look how effective these pieces of technology are," says Costante.
Costante says some of the residents’ concerns are increased speeds.
"Speed on residential roads, there's cut through roads, even arterial roads," says Costante. "Speed has been a big issue. If it's a high dense residential area but close to an institution where a lot of people work, it causes speed through the neighbourhoods."
Costante says the cameras would be installed in areas deemed high risk for speeding by the engineering department.
More than 300 red light cameras are used in the Greater Toronto Area.
Each camera system costs roughly $150,000, costs typically offset by ticket revenue. According to stats provided by the City of Toronto, 255,000 tickets have been mailed out over the past 10 years.
At $325 per infraction, if all tickets paid out, the City of Toronto would collect nearly $83-million.
In a study of eight Ontario municipalities that have red light cameras, collisions resulting in deaths and injury have dropped by more than 25 per cent.
