Correction: The cameras at the intersection of Main Street and Logan Avenue catch the most drivers speeding or running red lights. An earlier version of this story said the cameras at Bishop Grandin and River Road caught the most.
WINNIPEG – It looks like Winnipeg drivers aren’t really getting the message to slow down.
A new report from Winnipeg police shows a 64 per cent jump in the number of drivers getting tickets from mobile photo radar units.
There were 74,897 drivers nabbed last year, almost 30,000 more than in 2012. The increase is largely due to new technology that allows police to put the mobile units in positions they couldn’t use in past years, the Winnipeg Police Service said.
More than 36,000 drivers were given tickets by stationary red light cameras at 50 different intersections throughout the city in 2013. That’s a very slight increase from the year before.
Overall numbers are down significantly from 2003, when the radar project started and drivers weren’t used to it, police said.
The numbers show fighting the ticket doesn’t really work either. There were 107,882 convictions, compared to only 511 stayed charges.
All told, photo radar enforcement brought in $11,668,486.75 for police in 2013.
Winnipeg police are one year in to a new seven-year contract to continue using photo radar.
Which intersection nets the most tickets?
Numbers show the cameras at the intersection of Main Street and Logan Avenue catch the most drivers speeding or running red lights, flashing 3,833 times last year.
The cameras at the intersection of Bishop Grandin and River Road were second, with 3,665 photos in 2013. Kenaston Boulevard at Corydon Avenue was third, nabbing 2,342 drivers.
The number of fatal crashes on Winnipeg roads is at the lowest level in more than a decade. There have been no fatal crashes at intersections monitored by photo radar, police said.
The report will be discussed at a meeting of the Winnipeg Police Board on Friday.
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