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<\/p>\n\n Brampton spent millions on a speed camera processing center just before Ontario banned the cameras the building was built to support\n <\/p>\n
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Ontario banned the speed cameras shortly after the new processing center opened.<\/p>\n
Internal documents show the city may have paid millions above its own appraisal.<\/p>\n
The city insists the building can still serve other municipal functions going forward.<\/p>\n
Years ago, the city of Brampton, Ontario, Canada<\/a>, spent over CA$75 million or roughly US$55 million at current rates on a new facility to help manage speed cameras and process the tickets they write. There\u2019s just one big problem: the province recently banned those same cameras. Now, not only does the city have a facility without a purpose, but it\u2019s asking for another CA$27 million (US$20 million) for additional road safety measures.<\/p>\n That facility wasn\u2019t some side project. It was built to support a massive expansion of Brampton\u2019s automated speed enforcement program. The city scaled from about 50 cameras to 185, mainly in school zones, aiming to slow drivers and handle a surge of tickets in-house.<\/p>\n Read: Ontario Bans Speed Cameras And Pays For Bumps Instead<\/a><\/p>\n According to Insauga<\/a>, the numbers suggest that it worked. Speeds dropped by an average of over 9 km\/h (5.8 mph), with some areas seeing reductions exceeding 25 km\/h (15.5 mph). But critics, including Doug Ford<\/a>, argued the system was more about revenue than safety. The province ultimately agreed, moving to ban speed cameras just as Brampton\u2019s new processing center came online.<\/p>\n
Adding to the controversy, the city paid CA$77.9 million (US$57 million) for the property, well above one internal valuation, and far more than the CA$32.5 million (US$24 million ) it sold for just three years earlier. Now, with cameras sidelined, Brampton is pivoting toward speed bumps, new signage, and other costly alternatives.<\/p>\n In the past, we\u2019ve covered how speed limits themselves aren\u2019t the most effective way<\/a> to control actual speed. Road design plays a much larger role than a number on a sign, regardless of how big it is. Who knows? Perhaps the creative ideas on the table will be more successful than they sound. As for the multi-million dollar building? Officials have an idea on that front as well.<\/p>\n Brampton South MPP Hardeep Grewal had some harsh words for those concerned about the costs of the building. After saying it\u2019s now a real estate asset, he told the Brampton Guardian<\/a>, \u201ccover these costs by insisting that speed camera<\/a> operators do so or by making use of the tens of millions of dollars that you have taken from hard-working people through these speed camera programs over the last several years.\u201d<\/p>\n To its credit, the city is already pivoting. Officials say the building can support other municipal functions like IT services, recreation, and fleet storage. That said, none of this looks like a very well-organized situation. Hopefully other cities and states in North America can learn from this lesson rather than having to go through it themselves.<\/p>\n Lead image Flock Safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brampton spent millions on a speed camera processing center just before Ontario banned the cameras the building was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[90,13880,17,1240,10346,8002],"class_list":{"0":"post-30027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brampton","8":"tag-brampton","9":"tag-cameras","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-police","12":"tag-reports","13":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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