TORONTO — 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.

The premier calls the cameras a "cash grab" and has criticized several parameters of the program his government put in place. A letter this week to Ford and Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria from 22 mayors calls on the government to make a few simple changes to the program rather than scrapping it entirely.

"A total ban on (automated speed enforcement) would reverse years of progress on safety in school zone

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