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I have never received a photo radar ticket or any other speeding ticket from St. Albert law enforcement.
I welcome the required need to justify photo radar location to eliminate the “cash cow” locations.
As such, I question why the city continues to park their photo van at Goodridge and Gervais, and use the fake electricial boxes to work the traffic in both directions, since the pedestrian-activated light was installed. I have seen them there for up to seven hours in one sitting.
Is it because it is a 900-metre section of four-lane divided roadway posted at 50 km/h, and surrounded in all direction by 60 km/h zones, or is it that there is limited signage to warn drivers that the speed zone has changed?
I have never seen the photo van parked on Hebert Road, just across St. Albert Trail, where the speed is 60 km/h. But you can guarantee they will return over and over for hours at a time at this obviously lucrative spot, to capture and send out welcome to St. Albert, or thanks for visiting greetings to those who are unaware of this little hidy-hole of 50 km/h.
Photo radar has a place in our city’s traffic enforcement policy. It does, however, need to be about changing drivers’ behaviour to make the city safer. It should not be about finding fishing holes to increase the revenue of the private contractor who runs it or the city’s fine revenue.
Brian Low, St. Albert
