Police eye major expansion to photo radar

KEVIN ROLLASON

WINNIPEG needs more roving photo radar vehicles to nail speeders anywhere in the city — not just by schools, playgrounds and construction zones, which are the only locations allowed under legislation, the chairman of the Winnipeg Police Board says.

“We don’t have radar on residential streets, just collector streets, but now we see vehicles going high speed into residential areas,” said Coun. Markus Chambers.

He wants the provincial government to green-light a major expansion of the photo radar program and amend the law that governs its operation.

“This legislation came before Waverley West, Amber Trail and Sage Creek (were built),” said Chambers on Thursday, noting the legislation also locks in place the 2001 technology used by the 49 radar cameras set up at intersections throughout the city.

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