The infamous Parkside Drive pace digital camera in Toronto’s west finish, which has issued greater than 67,000 tickets so far, has been lower down for the fifth time in six months.
The group group Secure Parkside issued the discover on Friday and shared a photograph of the Parkside Drive pace digital camera toppled to the grass.
Secure Parkside co-chair Faraz Gholizadeh tells CityNews it seems that the pace digital camera was vandalized and damaged off in a single day.
The pace digital camera has been repeatedly focused, first being lower down twice in November, with the second incident occurring only a day after it was reinstalled. It was once more eliminated and thrown into a close-by duck pond in December.
“Since its set up, the Parkside Drive pace digital camera has develop into Toronto’s busiest pace digital camera, having issued a whopping 67,786 rushing tickets and generated over $7 million in fines ($7,253,102) so far,” Gholizadeh mentioned. “It additionally occurs to be Toronto’s most vandalized pace digital camera.”
The Parkside Drive pace digital camera was put in after two seniors had been killed in a multi-vehicle crash on the intersection of Parkside Drive and Spring Street on Oct. 12, 2021.
“Regardless of Parkside Drive’s lengthy and lethal historical past of rushing, the Metropolis of Toronto continues to miss security on Parkside Drive 12 months after 12 months,” Gholizadeh added.
The infamous Parkside Drive pace digital camera in Toronto, which has issued greater than 67,000 tickets so far, has been lower down for the fifth time in six months. Picture: CityNews.
Parkside residents nonetheless involved, declare metropolis is failing to handle ongoing points
Secure Parkside says locals stay involved that the Metropolis of Toronto is failing to handle the persisting security circumstances on Parkside Drive.
“A pace digital camera that has lately spent extra time on its aspect or in a pond than it has upright and functioning has clearly fallen properly in need of its supposed objective,” Gholizadeh mentioned.
“The dearth of significant security measures stays an enormous concern on Parkside Drive. Regardless of being a city-designated Neighborhood Security Zone and even supposing three individuals have been killed on Parkside Drive inside the previous couple of years, Parkside continues to expertise very excessive numbers of rushing and reckless/careless driving.”
Since 2021, town has carried out measures to enhance security alongside Parkside Drive, together with lowering the pace restrict from 50 to 40 kilometres per hour and including pace cameras and indicators telling motorists to scale back pace.
Final October, Toronto’s metropolis council endorsed a highway security plan for the realm to put in bi-directional biking lanes on the west aspect of Parkside Drive, lowering the variety of motorized vehicle lanes to 1 southbound and one northbound lane.
