Toronto's Parkside Drive speed camera cut down for 5th time in 6 months

CBC News

· Posted: May 23, 2025 12:55 PM EDT | Last Updated: May 23

For the 5th clip successful six months, the Parkside Drive velocity camera successful Toronto's westbound extremity has been chopped down.

Faraz Gholizadeh, co-chair of the assemblage radical Safe Parkside, says the velocity camera was taken down sometime Thursday nighttime oregon aboriginal Friday. 

As of Friday morning, the camera was removed from the area, and what remains is simply a chopped disconnected pole.

The velocity camera was chopped down doubly successful November. Then successful December, vandals chopped down the camera and dumped it into a adjacent duck pond. The camera was past downed again successful April.

Residents person agelong criticized the thoroughfare arsenic dangerous, citing dense postulation and speeding drivers. Safe Parkside was formed successful 2020, but residents person been calling connected the metropolis to marque the thoroughfare safer for implicit a decade, Gholizadeh said. 

In October 2021, an older mates was killed when they were stopped astatine a reddish airy connected the thoroughfare and a antheral driving astatine precocious velocity collided with them. 

That prompted the metropolis to motorboat an ongoing survey of the street, trim the velocity bounds from 50 km/h to 40, arsenic good arsenic adhd velocity cameras, caller postulation signals and signs telling motorists to trim their speed. 

Since it was installed successful April 2022, the camera has issued implicit 65,000 tickets and much than $7 cardinal successful fines, according to Safe Parkside.