Several Ontario municipalities are pushing back on Premier Doug Ford’s planned speed camera ban, urging him to tweak the program instead of outright cancelling it — but if he forges ahead, they say the province should foot the bill.

Ford has announced that his government will introduce legislation this month to prohibit the use of speed cameras across the province.

Regions that use the cameras, as well as a study by the Hospital for Sick Children and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), have data showing they reduce speeding.

But Ford maintains they don’t work and calls them a “cash grab” for municipalities.

Related: • ‘Speed kills’: Olivia Chow urges province to keep automated speed cameras • Brampton fighting to keep automated speed cameras amid proposed provincial ban

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