Ontario mayors are pushing back against Premier Doug Ford’s proposed legislation to ban speed cameras , and specifically at the notion that automated speed enforcement (ASE) programs are a cash grab that benefits municipalities.

“Nothing about this makes any sense,” Mayor Bill Gordon of Midland, Ontario, said of the proposed ban, across the province , announced last week by Ford.

Many municipalities have invested time and resources in speed cameras and believe that they are an effective safety tool in their communities. The mayors of Midland and Guelph, along with one municipal official, want to set the record straight that ASE’s are an effective safety tool, not a revenue generator.

“Want to stop a program? Fine. Want to disparage cities like Guelph while you do it? Not fine,”

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