{"id":299449,"date":"2025-11-22T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299449\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T10:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T10:51:05","slug":"city-of-toronto-says-it-will-remove-all-speed-cameras-by-end-of-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/299449\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Toronto says it will remove all speed cameras by end of November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to know<\/p>\n<p>Toronto is removing all remaining speed cameras by the end of the month, and any still standing are no longer issuing tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario\u2019s Bill 56, which bans automated speed enforcement, took effect last week.<\/p>\n<p>Speed camera tickets issued before Nov. 14 remain valid, but anything after that date won\u2019t be enforced.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates and city officials warn the ban could harm road safety and threaten up to 1,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>One week after Ontario\u2019s speed camera ban came into effect, the City of Toronto says all devices should be down by the end of the month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The city confirmed to Now Toronto on Friday that it\u2019s currently in the process of removing all 150 of its cameras, and says any devices that are still up are no longer capturing violations either.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after the Ontario government\u2019s controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ola.org\/en\/legislative-business\/bills\/parliament-44\/session-1\/bill-56\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Bill 56<\/a> kicked in last Friday, which banned automated speed enforcement cameras, where Premier Doug Ford previously called them a \u201ccash grab.\u201d The province said it would instead shift to alternative traffic-calming measures in hopes of protecting taxpayers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"nt-read-more__title no-margin-top\">Read More<\/p>\n<p>The province said tickets handed out after Nov. 14 would not be enforceable, though tickets issued before then are still valid.<\/p>\n<p>The city also emphasized that there is no additional cost to taxpayers for the takedown process, as the cost is built into the contract with the vendor.<\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s decision has faced plenty of pushback from advocacy groups and local officials who have argued the cameras are essential in helping reduce dangerous speeding. Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow has also spoken out against the removal, urging that eliminating the speed cameras could cost the city around 1,000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nt-read-more__title no-margin-top\">Read More<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the province announced a $210-million investment through the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ontario.ca\/en\/release\/1006726\/ontario-launching-road-safety-initiatives-fund\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Road Safety Initiatives Fund (RSIF)<\/a> for municipalities. The funding will go towards helping municipalities build and install new road safety measures, including speed bumps, raised crosswalks, roundabouts, enhanced signage, and increased police enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Toronto is removing all remaining speed cameras by the end of the month, and any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,13743,44,126948,905,99138,3302],"class_list":["post-299449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-doug-ford","tag-news","tag-olivia-chow","tag-ontario","tag-speed-cameras","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}