A Toronto speed camera notorious for issuing tens of thousands of tickets to drivers has been cut down again less than 24 hours after it was reinstalled.
On Saturday morning, the camera on Parkside Drive was discovered lying on the ground. It is the second time this month that the equipment was vandalized.
“It was disappointing because this speed camera is here to slow people down,” Safe Parkside co-chair Faraz Gholizadeh told CP24 on Saturday morning.
“It’s there for safety. And for someone to come and cut it down the way they did, it just seems to be a lack of concern for what’s happening on Toronto streets and what’s happening on Parkside.”
The speed camera located near Parkside Drive and Algonquin Avenue was installed after an elderly couple was killed in a collision involving a speeding driver in 2021.
According to Safe Parkside, the speed camera has issued over 60,000 tickets with an estimated …