Starting this year photo radar in Toronto school zones will identify speeding motorists who will then be mailed “big fat tickets” for putting lives at risk, Mayor John Tory vowed Monday. Tory made the pledge in Scarborough at a morning announcement of initiatives in a “Slow Down Toronto” campaign that comes amid a surge of pedestrian deaths on local streets. Article Continued BelowTory said city and provincial officials are “tied up in some sort of regulatory hurdles,” but he is putting “as much pressure as possible on the government of Ontario” to get photo radar in Toronto school zones in 2018. Motorists have killed a dozen Toronto pedestrians this year, including a woman who walked on provincially controlled Hwy. He added that bike lanes protected by flexible posts in school zones would slow traffic better and discourage illegal stops.

Source: thestar March 19, 2018 20:53 UTC