Wow! Just saw this article. Alberta government giving Municipalities 1 year to show data that proves photo radar improves safety, or they have to kill it.
On one hand it's exciting to know that this is a slam dunk and photo radar will be gone since it has never contributed to safety. As anyone who has read the statistics knows, speed is not a causal factor in virtually any accidents as it is, and even if it was, getting a ticket 3 weeks later doesn't really help anything.
However, I am wondering how the government plans to analyze the data and confirm accuracy? Edmonton already has a bunch of anecdotal garbage data to try and say PR works. For example, the 23ave intersection at Gateway Blvd, was responsible for a huge percentage of accidents. The city re-engineered the entire intersection and created an overpass, so naturally those accidents disappeared from the accident data the following year. The city tried to associate the decrease in overall accidents to Photo Radar.
Anyway, here is the article. Feel free to discuss.
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/pol...-than-cash-cow