Installation underway on 10 new red light cameras in Windsor

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Windsor volition person 10 caller reddish airy cameras operating earlier the extremity of the year, the City of Windsor says. Installation connected the caller cameras began astir 3 weeks ago and installation is expected to beryllium implicit successful 2 months.

The 10 caller camers volition articulation 10 the metropolis installed successful 2021.

Kathleen Saylors · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 07, 2025 5:35 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A motion   marks that a reddish  airy  camera is ahead.

The City of Windsor volition adhd 10 caller reddish airy cameras crossed the city, expected to beryllium operational wrong six months. (Chris Ensing/CBC)

Windsor volition person 10 caller reddish airy cameras operating earlier the extremity of the year, the City of Windsor says. 

Installation connected the caller cameras began astir 3 weeks ago and installation is expected to beryllium implicit successful 2 months. 

From there, the metropolis volition undertake a notice period. The cameras volition beryllium afloat operational wrong six months, said Ian Day, the city's elder manager of transportation. 

"Every determination volition beryllium signed successful each 4 directions. We'll person a media merchandise connected our website ... to see each the sites," Day said. 

The city's determination to adhd 10 caller cameras comes aft the archetypal 10, installed successful 2021, brought success: Day says the metropolis recorded a 20.5 per cent simplification successful injuries astatine the intersections that had cameras. 

The camera instrumentality 2 photos, 1 with the vehicles entering the intersection and a 2nd arsenic they proceed done the intersection. The cameras are question triggered aft a reddish light, the metropolis says. 

Day says locations are chosen for installation based connected metropolis and Windsor constabulary clang data. The metropolis studied its clang information from 2018 to 2023 successful processing the database of camera locations. 

"We usage that database due to the fact that not each tract is simply a suitable determination for reddish airy cameras," helium said. "We person to person the show lines for the cameras, nary obstructions and the the existent spot country to enactment the cameras up on.

"Some of the sites aren't eligible and we conscionable support moving down the collision database based upon that data."

Day said the metropolis doesn't presently person plans to grow the programme beyond these 20 cameras, but unit volition study backmost connected the findings and results from this caller batch of cameras successful the adjacent 1 to 2 years. 

"It is simply a palmy programme and that's wherefore we went with [10] more."

The city's caller reddish airy cameras volition beryllium installed astatine the pursuing intersections: 

  1. Lauzon Parkway astatine Tecumseh Road East.
  2. Provincial Road astatine Walker Road.
  3. Lauzon Parkway astatine Forest Glade Drive.
  4. Central Avenue astatine North Service Road/Temple Drive.
  5. Northwood Street astatine Dominion Boulevard.
  6. Labelle Street astatine Dominion Boulevard.
  7. Tecumseh Road East astatine Pillette Road.
  8. Lauzon Line astatine Lauzon Parkway.
  9. Wyandotte Street West astatine Crawford Avenue.
  10. Tecumseh Road East astatine Jefferson Boulevard.
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