Speed Camera News Photo Enforcement Warning Signs Deliberately Removed by City of Winnipeg
Photo Enforcement Warning Signs Deliberately Removed by City of Winnipeg
WiseUpWinnipeg uncovers definitive evidence of a “Calculated Campaign to Maximize Violations”
New “ground-breaking” research reveals
ALL median warning signs preceding camera intersections have been intentionally removed.
WiseUpWinnipeg demands a credible explanation from the City of Winnipeg.
April 1, 2011 – Winnipeg, Mb. After observing a disturbing trend of what appears to be intentionally inadequate speed-reduction signs preceding camera intersections in Winnipeg (i.e. Main at Logan and Grant at Wilton) compared to signage throughout the rest of the city, WiseUpWinnipeg has discovered even more physical evidence to verify that the City of Winnipeg is willfully engaged in a “Calculated Campaign to Maximize Violations”.
WiseUpWinnipeg.com technical affairs director, Mr. Chris Sweryda, set out to painstakingly chart signage patterns at all camera-intersections in Winnipeg. What he discovered was staggering – prior to 2009, all 32 camera-intersections that involved a median to divide traffic had two “photo-enforcement ahead” warning signs posted, one on the median and another parallel on the curb-side, to optimize visibility for driver awareness and compliance.
Provencier and Aulneau
Before
**before images from Google Maps
However, subsequent to the summer of 2009, each and every one of those locations had their median warning sign removed. Some “before and after” photos are shown in this post, however a complete photo gallery of all 32 median locations can be found at:
http://photos.wiseupwinnipeg.com
You can also download a 5mb pdf document containing all of the different intersection photos by clicking the link below.
City of Winnipeg Removes Intersection Camera Warning Signs.
After
Regardless of whether dual warning signs are required by law or not, their removal raises some very serious ethical and regulatory questions about the rationale to remove anything that would enhance driver awareness. “If the City had already invested the time and cost to install the dual warning signs, what reason could possibly justify the removal of any of them, let alone ALL of them?” asks Todd Dube, co-founder of WiseUpWinnipeg.com. “This is irrefutable evidence of an ulterior agenda by the City to entrap motorists through reduced awareness tactics as part of a desperate strategy to increase revenue. This abuse of public trust must stop immediately – it’s as though the photo-enforcement program is being operated by a gaming corporation rather than the Winnipeg Police Service,” Dube concludes.
In each set of “before and after” photos it can be clearly seen that the median signs have been extracted from the ground or detached from the pole, leaving only a single and often inadequate curbside sign – even on roads with multiple lanes.
Dwindling net profits per camera over the last few years are forcing city traffic engineers to “pull out all the stops” to wring-out more dollars from the pockets of Winnipeg vehicle owners.
“This is yet another devious tactic in a long line of tricks by the City to rake in profits,” explains Larry Stefanuik, co-founder of WiseUpWinnipeg.com. “First it was the short and dangerous amber-times, then came the 250% increase per fine and the lowering of speed tolerances to net more “speeders”, then mobile enforcement of construction zones with no construction workers and school zones not adjacent to schools, then improperly erected reduced-speed signs and now the coupe de grace: deliberately reducing warning signage.”
Century and Silver
Before
After
“The City of Winnipeg’s addiction to photo-enforcement revenue is out of control and requires an immediate intervention by the provincial government in the name of true safety and justice,” concludes Larry Stefanuik, retired WPS Traffic Division officer.
The above was issued as a press release to local and international media sources on April 1, 2011.
This is definately NOT an April Fools Joke.
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