NDP: Ford rallies against road safety measures while ignoring real issues

ST. CATHARINES – Shadow Solicitor General Jennie Stevens (St. Catharines) is calling out Premier Doug Ford for taking speed cameras, a road safety measure that saves lives, out of communities without any plans to keep vulnerable road users safe:

"The Premier is taking tools away from our communities that keep children, cyclists and pedestrians safe,” said Stevens. “Ontarians know this is a distraction. While the Premier rallies against speeding tickets, 800,000 Ontarians are unemployed. Right now, the Premier of our province is focused on taking safety tools away from school zones and high-risk areas of our communities against the advice of experts, including police chiefs, instead of focusing on what matters - the jobs disaster that has unfolded under his watch.”

QUICK FACTS:

• The Ford government is backtracking on their own road safety policies that they brought forward in 2019
• Police chiefs and municipalities have questioned the Premier’s decision to do away with road safety tools without any real plans to make streets safer
• Studies show that cameras slow speeding drivers