A driver driving past Toronto's most controversial speed cameras was speeding over 150 km/h, according to new information released by a local advocacy group. They claim their numbers prove why speed enforcement is necessary.
Safe Parkside, which has lobbied for years to improve road safety and reduce speed on Toronto streets. Parkside Drivereleased the numbers in an attempt to head off a looming ban on the use of cameras by the provincial government.
According to freedom of information documents obtained and released by the group, a vehicle was recorded traveling at 154 km/h on Parkside Drive in 2024, while another was recorded traveling at 146 km/h in the same year.
The group has published a list of speed violations caught on cameras, showing the top 10 violations of speeds of 119 km/h or more on a road where the limit is 40 km/h.
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“These numbers highlight the dangers that Parkside Drive residents face on a daily basis. The most alarming part is not the numbers themselves, but the fact that the City of Toronto knows all of this and yet continues to drag its feet when it comes to addressing the problem of rampant speeding on Parkside Drive,” the group said in a statement.
“All this is happening right next to the busiest park in the city, as families, children, elderly people, kindergartens and schools are forced to cross this city thoroughfare.”
The camera on Parkside Drive has been vandalized and disabled multiple times since it was installed. The road has also been the site of a number of dangerous accidents in recent years, as Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow recently highlighted.
Three years ago, a suspended driver was hit on the road at a speed of over 100 km/h. rear-ended another car and killed two people inside.
Chow said the camera was installed on Parkside Drive to penalize people speeding on a dangerous stretch of road.
“The Ford government has been talking about Parkside. I've noticed that in the last 10 years there have been seven serious crashes with three deaths, five serious injuries, and these speed cameras there really help slow down the cars,” she said.
Safe Parkside is among those calling on the province not to abandon automated speed cameras, which Premier Doug Ford has called a “taxation” and said they do nothing to slow down speeding.
The premier and his transport minister said last month they would introduce legislation to ban municipalities from using speed cameras.
When the law is introduced, it will be completed. policy feedback from the Prime Minister, who introduced rules in 2019 to primarily regulate speed camerasentering into force legislation written by the previous Liberal government.
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