Traffic Cameras: City Hall Trust Lost: BENN

To know (rather than assume) whether a traffic safety initiative is working, Ottawa City Council needs a useful report from staff.

Consideration should be given to a report that provides comparative results over time (say monthly) by location.

A simple table and accompanying line graph that shows how many ticketing events took place at a specific location (red light or school zone) since the cameras were put in place. Location by location. Not cumulative over the city. Not revenues. Events. The data already exists. A summer student with a course in data management could pull this together in less than a week. There aren’t that many locations (low hundreds, not thousands). The report could sort the tables/graphs by ward. It could show the top 10 in each category, both in volume and success or failure rate.

The purpose of these reports is to confirm or refute that the traffic safety policy initiatives work. Another purpose would be to highlight those locations where the red light and speed cameras are not successful in reducing the number of events. Those become the priority locations for road safety works to be implemented.

As College Councillor Laine Johnson points out, this is a matter of public trust. And public trust is what staff and council have squandered.

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