The snow may have slowed down motorists on Ottawa’s roads in February, as the city’s photo radar cameras caught the fewest number of speeders in 16 months.
New statistics from the City of Ottawa show 19,582 tickets were issued through the automated speed enforcement camera program in February, down from 31,114 speeding tickets in January. It was the fewest number of speeders caught by photo radar cameras in a month since November 2023, when 19,445 speeding tickets were issued.
While the report doesn’t say why there was a drop in tickets issued through photo radar cameras in February, Ottawa did receive 109 cm of snow during the month. There was 69 cm of snow during a five-day period.
The busiest photo radar camera in Ottawa was on King Edward Avenue, between Bolton Street and St. Patrick Street, with 1,885 speeding tickets issued in February. The photo radar camera caught 3,336 speeders in January.
The camera on Colonial Road, between Delson Drive and Frank Kenny Road, caught 1,567 speeders in February, while the camera on Walkley Road, between Halifax Drive and Harding Road, issued 1,160 speeding tickets.
The City of Ottawa has 60 photo radar cameras in operation in school zones, community safety zones and high speed zones across the city. There are plans to install 24 new photo radar cameras on roads across the city in 2025.
A total of 50,726 speeding tickets have been issued through the automated speed enforcement program in the first two months of the year.
Statistics show 383,830 speeding tickets were issued through the automated speed enforcement camera program in 2024. There were 220,789 speeding tickets in 2023 (26 cameras), 127,939 tickets in 2022 (17 cameras) and 80,944 tickets in 2021 (eight cameras) through the photo radar camera program.
Revenue collected through the automated speed enforcement camera program supports Ottawa’s Road Safety Action Plan and is reinvested into road safety initiatives for all road users.
Here is a look at the 10 busiest photo radar cameras in Ottawa in February
- King Edward Avenue, between Bolton Street and St. Patrick Street: 1,885 tickets
- Colonial Road, between Delson Drive and Frank Kenny Road: 1,567 tickets
- Walkley Road, between Halifax Drive and Harding Road: 1,160 tickets
- Merivale Road, between MacFarlane Road and Brookdale Avenue: 1,020 tickets
- Jeanne d’Arc Boulevard, between Orleans Boulevard and Paddler Way/Vorlage Drive: 940 tickets
- Stittsville Main Street, between Hobin Street and Beverly Street: 715 tickets
- Riverside Drive, between Mooney’s Bay Place and Hog’s Back Road: 667 tickets
- Katimavik Road, between Castlefrank Road and McGibbon Drive/Sewall Way: 637 tickets
- St. Laurent Boulevard, between Noranda Avenue and Clarke Avenue: 620 tickets
- Cedarview Road, between Fallowfield Road and Jockvale Road: 574 tickets
