According to the Department of Justice, 2022 was a record year for photo radar in Quebec.
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Nearly $63 million was raised last year with the 477,309 insult ads distributed across fixed and mobile devices installed across the province.
Fixed photo radars are the most profitable. Those 23 devices alone brought in $29.6 million. The most lucrative is Mirabel. In 2022, he issued over 55,500 fines totaling over $7 million.
In Quebec, it is the device at the intersection of Boulevard Charest Ouest and Avenue Saint-Sacrement that yielded the most. Nearly 35,000 insults were issued for approximately $3.5 million. It is also the fourth highest paid photo radar in Quebec. Since its installation in 2009, this photoradar has brought $16.6 million to the state treasury.
In total, the seven fixed photoradar installed in the Capitale-Nationale and Chaudière-Appalaches regions raised more than $7.5 million in 2022.
An eighth fixed photoradar will soon be operational in the region on the Dufferin-Montmorency motorway at the François de Laval boulevard junction. It was installed there after the accident that killed four members of the same family in September 2021.
Mobile photo radars fined a total of $31.2 million last year
The previous record dates back to 2019, when a total of $57 million was raised through the province’s fixed and mobile photoradar.
Since the first devices were installed in August 2009, 2.7 million insults totaling more than $358 million have been distributed to drivers in Quebec.
Photo radars are effective, according to the Department for Transport and Sustainable Mobility.
“The percentage of vehicles that exceeded the speed limit in places where the photo radars were installed was 59% and has dropped to just 13% since the photo radars were installed. This means there are now many vehicles obeying the speed limits in these sectors,” said MTQ spokesman Nicolas Vigneault.
The number of accidents at sites where photo radars have been installed has also decreased by 12% to 29%, depending on the industry, according to the ministry.
The government is not ruling out the deployment of more devices from the end of 2023.
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