REGINA – In the nine months since the province introduced photo radar, some drivers have gotten good at figuring out which boxes have cameras.
There are two photo speed enforcement cameras in Regina, and they alternate between various camera locations in Ring Road and in school zones.
When a camera is installed in a box, there are distinct black bars on the back of the grey box. Now all of the boxes have been set up with permanent black bars whether they house a camera or not.
“It came to our attention that some drivers knew the difference a box that had a camera and one that didn’t,” said Marie Schultz, a communication consultant with SGI.
“The point of the program is to slow down traffic in all of the locations, not just where the cameras are. When we found out that drivers knew this we wanted to make sure all the boxes look the same,” she explained.
Schultz said SGI began putting the black bars on boxes a couple months ago, and finished last week.
There are five speed camera locations on Ring Road and five in school zones across Regina.
Saskatoon has five camera locations on Circle Drive and in school zones as well. Moose Jaw has three school zone camera sites.
Other cameras are located at the intersection of Highway 1 North and 9th in Moose Jaw, Highway 12 near Martinsville, and Highway 1 East between Pilote Butte and White City.
The change to the boxes has caused some to react over Twitter:
And Reddit:
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