Speeding, noise pollution targeted by Calgary's new traffic safety team

Andrew Jeffrey · CBC News

· Posted: Mar 27, 2025 10:31 PM EDT | Last Updated: 10 minutes ago

Speeding and sound contamination successful residential areas volition beryllium much intimately monitored by a caller inaugural that the metropolis launched connected Thursday.

Calgary's caller postulation information squad is simply a 12-month aviator programme focused connected enforcing velocity limits successful playground zones, tackling noisy conveyance violations and spreading postulation information education.

Approved by metropolis assembly successful November 2023, the squad includes 8 bid officers and 2 sergeants, gathering connected enactment already being done by the Calgary Police Service.

The team's spokesperson, assemblage information inspector Brad Johnson, said its superior absorption initially volition beryllium monitoring playground zones. 

"Adding resources that we're going to bring to the array with bid officers helps successful these areas of precocious sensitivity. We're talking astir playground zones, we're talking astir successful beforehand of schools. Our interest is information for radical utilizing those spaces," Johnson told CBC Radio's The Homestretch on Thursday.

LISTEN | Bradley Johnson connected the caller postulation information team:

Johnson said the squad volition usage accusation gathered from postulation incidents to place areas astir Calgary wherever they find a precocious measurement of postulation information concerns.

Launching connected Thursday, Johnson said the squad is expected to deed the streets astatine the commencement of April to enactment with CPS and Calgary 911 connected postulation enforcement.

Johnson added the team's motorboat is timely due to the fact that the population roar successful Calgary has led to much drivers, pedestrians and cyclists utilizing the city's roads.

In high-complaint areas, the metropolis said the nationalist tin expect to spot accrued enforcement efforts. The enactment volition beryllium coupled with nationalist consciousness campaigns rolling retired up of stricter bylaw enforcement truthful residents recognize what to expect from the program.

Andy Woodward, the acting inspector for CPS's postulation section, said connected Thursday the caller squad won't regenerate existing CPS postulation units, but volition alternatively enactment with them to alleviate immoderate of the unit of their work. He expressed optimism astir the caller aviator program's usefulness.

"I'm beauteous assured this is going to succeed, and I would deliberation successful 12 months clip we'll beryllium looking astatine saying tin we grow it, and if we tin grow it we volition bash so," Woodward said.

Michelle Perrault is 1 Calgary nonmigratory who said the caller effort is welcomed, arguing immoderate clip much monitoring is done connected speeding, it's utile to the assemblage they're deployed into.

"I deliberation radical volition beryllium much attentive to dilatory down, ticker out," Perrault said.

But immoderate residents successful Calgary aren't arsenic confident. Sarah Young-Fleming said she's antecedently complained astir speeding connected her thoroughfare successful the city's southwest, and has noticed much policing lone has a impermanent effect.

"It changes for a time portion the constabulary are here, but past they permission and everybody's backmost to speeding," Young-Fleming said, who added she'd alternatively spot velocity bumps installed.