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"This isn't about raising revenue it's about solving the problem"
The entitled gentrificators likely won't give two shits about your fines lol. Speed cameras would be a viable option to raise revenue, but probably won't do much to deter people with city money who move out to the sticks from enjoying the shit out of a lack of traffic..
The sort of fines that are appropriate for traditional rural dwellers won't dissuade urbanites.
The only reasonable solution is a points system that leads to license suspension.
When Saskatchewan first introduced their points system, my lead-footed dad got a 30-day suspension for 3 speeding tickets. And it was a full suspension, with no allowance for the fact that he was the only licensed driver in the family, there was no public transit to his place of work, and his job normally required that he drive a company vehicle.
The only thing that saved him was that a colleague in another department was willing to pick him on the way to work and that he was part of a crew that shared driving duties. Well, he could have burned his vacation time, I guess.
On top of that, his driver's license went from basically a nominal fee to over $100 and took a few years of points free driving to fall back to normal.
I don't think he ever went over the speed limit again.
Does Ontario not already have a points/demerits system? My mom was an alcoholic, so I saw her get her license suspended once, twice, for 5 years, then permanently.
I guess it's too lenient to make a difference.
I don't know, I've only ever had a Saskatchewan license. Note that I was not referring to the criminal offense of impaired driving that has it's own provisions for license suspension. I was talking about suspension for "simply" collecting too many points for moving violations (speeding, failure to stop at signs and signals, etc.)
Ontario definitely already has that. The demerit limit is also lower for drivers without a full license (classes G1 and G2). But, like I said, it must be too lenient.