Take it easy on the accelerator as you approach the traffic lights at Garden City and Cambie roads in Richmond, because the traffic camera there is starting to issue speeding tickets this summer.
The B.C. government is activating technology in 35 of its intersection cameras across the province that will ticket the owners of vehicles that travel through above the speed limit.
"We've taken time to systematically pinpoint the locations linked to crashes and dangerous speeds that are best suited to safely catching, ticketing and changing the behaviours of those who cause carnage on B.C. roads,” Minister of Public Safety Mike Fairnworth said in a news release.
Previously, the cameras only targeted people who ran red lights.
The government analyzed data from 140 intersection cameras, and decided on 35 of them where speeding tickets would be beneficial. The one at Garden City and Cambie is the only one in Richmond that capture speeders, but there are several more throughout the Lower Mainland.
The government won’t reveal the threshold speed at which the cameras will issue tickets.
“We want people who travel through these busy intersections to get where they're going safely," Fairnworth said.
