Speed cameras are set to be removed across Ontario in two weeks, after Premier Doug Ford’s government passed legislation Thursday to ban them, though it's unclear when the premier's much-touted alternative traffic calming measures will replace them.
Ford has said speed cameras don’t work to slow drivers down — though evidence collected by municipalities and Hospital for Sick Children researchers says otherwise — and believes measures such as speed bumps, roundabouts and signs with flashing lights are more effective.
However, Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria could not say when those measures would replace speed cameras.