Regina City Council proposes ‘speed on green’ and ‘rolling right turns’ tickets
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Regina City Council has voted to expand the existing red light camera safety program to include speeding, speeding tickets, and rolling right turns. Currently, there are three red light cameras in Regina, Saskatchewan. If implemented, Regina could collect around $120,000 in fines if it is implemented.
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Regina City Council has voted to expand the existing red light camera safety program to
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include speed on green, speeding tickets, and rolling right turns. According to the report,
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the first area to increase enforcement is rolling right turns on a red light because vehicles hit
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37 people in the last five years with a high proportion of violations for rolling right
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turning on red. Now, Regina could collect around $120,000 in fines if it is implemented,
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and it does not need the province's approval as Saskatoon already tickets drivers for rolling
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right turns. Now, the second area to increase enforcement is drivers who speed up to get
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through a green light before it turns red. According to the report, the red light cameras at Albert
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Street and Parliament Avenue intersection caught 43,944 speeding violations between 50 and 60
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kilometers an hour in a 50 kilometer hour zone in October 2021. Now, at that same intersection,
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it caught 2,958 drivers between 60 and 70 kilometers an hour and 156 going between 70 and 80 kilometers
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an hour. Now, the council needs the province's approval and changes to the Traffic Act before
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can issue fines for speed on green offenders. Now, the only councillor to vote against the additional
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traffic offenses was Ward 9 councillor Jason Mancinelli. Currently, there are three red light cameras
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in Regina. Read the full story on westernstandard.news. I'm Chris Holcorn reporting for the Western
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