Less Speeding = Less Money for the City

With much of the recent controversy about the photo radar debacle, it seems that a side-effect of all of the attention drawn to the issue of going faster than the government's arbitrary speed limit is that people have been paying attention to the location of photo radar cameras and slowing down, which is cutting into the revenues for the City of Winnipeg.

Winnipeg Police Service chief Keith McCaskill told city councillors recent forecasts of photo-radar speeding ticket revenue shows an expected 30-per-cent decline.

McCaskill said police will issue 52,000 fewer photo-radar tickets this year, cutting revenues by just under $5 million.

The total amount of tickets expected to be issued is just under 104,000, down from nearly 168,000 last year.

Isn't that the point of photo radar? To get people to slow down? Yet when they do it, it hurts their bottom line, photo radar revenues are a line item in the City's budget that will have to be made up somewhere else.