Smile — if you’re speeding through a busy intersection — because you may be on camera.
And it may cost you.
Automated speed enforcement equipment has been installed at the intersection at Mariner Way and Barnet Highway in Coquitlam and at Shaughnessy Street and Lougheed Highway in Port Coquitlam. They are two of 35 such cameras activated this week across the province.
“Prominent warning signs are in place to warn and deter speeding drivers,” said the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General in a press release. “[Intersection safety camera] equipment captures images and speed of the fastest vehicles passing through monitored intersections in red, yellow and green lights.”
Officers review footage before mailing out tickets, which carry fines — for the vehicle’s registered owner — but no points on a person’s driver’s licence.
There are already 105 red lights cameras in B.C., 10 of which are in the Tri-Cities. In 2019, the cameras led to 83,345 tickets being issued.
With the new technology introduced this week, the ministry said people driving erratically through intersections could end up getting multiple tickets.
“The registered owner of a vehicle that speeds through a red light at a speed-activated [intersection safety camera] intersection would face fines for both infractions,” the ministry said in the press release.
