Speed Tickets in Work Zone When No One Is Working

JTF wrote:Oh ya, but just to catch you going over the regular speed limit (50kph usually).

Years back, there were "school zones" where you had to lower your speed to 15mph at the time. There were signs indicating where the zone ended btw.

JTF wrote:We seem to be okay with the idea of cops setting up a radar trap and giving tickets on the spot, but not with a van parked there?

Hmmmm......

JTF wrote:We seem to be okay with the idea of cops setting up a radar trap and giving tickets on the spot, but not with a van parked there?

Hmmmm......

none that I am aware of ... got some examples JTF so I can go check it out in the next little bit?

JTF wrote:

none that I am aware of ... got some examples JTF so I can go check it out in the next little bit?

...top of my head... Corydon at Stafford and again at Harrow...Ellice / Sargent at Clifton-ish...Selkirk at Arlington...

zit for now...

Mayor Sam Katz is shooting down any suggestion the city is to blame for a rapid upsurge in radar-gun use in Winnipeg construction zones.

Responding yesterday to the Doer government's apparent suggestions that city decisions are behind an explosion in the number of such speeding tickets to about 60,000 in 2008 from some 3,000 the previous year, Katz fired back.

Katz said it's the Doer government that ramped up photo enforcement in Winnipeg following mishaps such as the deaths of two cable installers struck by a vehicle on St. Mary's Road a couple of years ago.

"They decided to basically do an advertising campaign regarding construction sites and photo radar, and then started enforcing photo radar at the construction sites," Katz said, adding an increase in Winnipeg street construction last year helped boost the province's expansion of speed controls in work zones.

"There was a phenomenal amount of construction going on all over the city -- major construction. We're all aware of what was going on.

"With mobile units, it was much safer. And there was more of it. So that's really how that came about."

The mayor's comments came after Justice Minister Dave Chomiak said on Wednesday the spike in construction zone tickets is a sign the photo-radar law should be changed.

Shield police

Katz also tried to shield Winnipeg police from blame in the photo radar mess, stressing the city's cops have been fair with motorists.

"Impugning the integrity of the Winnipeg Police Service," Katz said. "I find that almost insulting."

The mayor added he isn't certain how hard public coffers will be hit if the province and city refund drivers for tickets wrongly issued in Winnipeg construction zones.

"If there is a $10-million hit, is that going to have an impact? I think you know the answer to that," said Katz. "Of course it will have an impact."

The mayor's office released estimates showing slightly higher Winnipeg photo-radar revenue going to the province than to the city. In 2006, according to the estimates, the provincial government took in $12.6 million while the city collected $11.7 million.

In 2007, it was $12.3 million for the province and $11.3 million for the city. Last year, the province reaped $17 million while Winnipeg received $14.1 million.
Winnipeg Sun

JTF wrote:I'm confused here.

Who set up the radar? The WPS.

Who controls the WPS? The Mayor.

Katz is blaming Doer for the actions of the WPS? Yup.

grumpy old man wrote:I say they BOTH are responsible. I also believe there was collusion here between the two governments.

The whole point of my post was to demonstrate that the provincial government was both involved in the decision making and shared lucratively in the profits.