WINNIPEG — It’s a camera drivers don’t want to be caught on.
Still, photo enforcement at intersections around Winnipeg continues to nab hundreds of drivers a month who speed or run red lights.
Statistics from January through June show the intersection where the most tickets were handed out was Main Street and Logan Avenue.
The city mailed out 1,534 tickets in the first six months of the year. Of them, 125 were for red light offences and 1,410 were for speeding.
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“I would chalk it up just to the volume of traffic that goes through that intersection on a daily basis,” said Staff Sgt. Rob Riffel, with the Winnipeg Police Service central traffic unit.
There are 50 photo enforced intersections with 33 cameras operating at any given time in Winnipeg.
The city’s top five collision-prone intersections are not photo enforced.
“They don’t put the cameras where there are accidents or fatalities,” said Chris Sweryda, a member of the photo radar watchdog group Wise Up Winnipeg. “They put the cameras where they can make the most money.”
Police said the camera locations depend on a lot of factors.
“Collision data, citizen input and basically an equal distribution through the city are the three criteria that were used for most of the cameras that were installed,” Riffel said, adding there are no plans to add any more locations or cameras.
The information is posted on the Winnipeg Police Service’s website.
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