Calgary traffic cameras caught more than 1,000 infractions per day in 2015
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Police catching far more speeders with mobile photo-radar units, as speed-on-green tickets decline
Calgary police focused extra attention in 2015 on drivers who speed through constructions zones with workers present. The number of tickets issued for that offence surges 271% from the year before. (CBC) Calgary police mailed out 388,458 tickets to drivers caught on camera speeding or running red lights last year. That's 1,064 tickets per day. It's also increase of 20.7 per cent over 2014, which is mainly the result of a surge in speeders caught by mobile photo-radar units. Infractions caught by fixed cameras — the ones installed at intersections — were actually down last year, with speed-on-green tickets dropping 16.6 per cent and tickets for running red lights down 4.7 per cent. Tickets issued by mobile photo radar vehicles, meanwhile, surged 46.7 per cent to 273,082 total infractions. This interactive graph shows tickets by type for the past three years. Click on a year to see the numbers change: Automated Traffic Enforcement Stats Create column charts CBC News has requested comment from the Calgary Police Service, who provided the data and plan to hold a press conference at 2:30 p.m. to speak about the numbers. Here's how the tickets break down, by type of offence and how drivers were caught:
Last year a total of $21.1 million in fine revenue was collected from photo-radar tickets, another $10 million from speed-on-green tickets, plus $3.6 million from drivers caught on camera running red lights. Tickets handed out the old-fashioned way — by officers pulling drivers over and ticketing them in person — yielded another $15 million in fine revenue, police said. |