The Town of Innisfil is expanding its automated speed enforcement (ASE) program to improve road safety in more community safety zones. The expansion includes the addition of four new cameras to enforce speed limits and a change to the way people dispute or pay a ticket.
Innisfil’s initial ASE program launched in November 2024 with one camera rotating through community safety zones every few months. That camera is now located on 20th Sideroad near Killarney Beach Public School. Within the next 90 days, a second camera will be placed on Innisfil Beach Road near the Innisfil ideaLAB & Library’s Lakeshore Branch for the summer months. Three more cameras are expected to be put into rotation in August 2025 just before the start of the new school year.
In addition to increasing the number of cameras within the community, the Town will begin hearing ticket disputes and collecting fines under an Administrative Penalties program. Currently, anyone wishing to dispute or pay their ticket must do so through the provincial courts, which can be time-consuming and create backlogs in the provincial court system. The change to the new program is expected to occur this summer in line with the installation of the additional three cameras.
Adding additional cameras to the Town’s ASE program ensures more frequent placement across twelve priority locations, which are all identified as high-risk areas near schools or community centres most likely to benefit from this traffic calming solution. In the rotation model, a camera will return to a school zone every three months and near a community area every nine months to reinforce safer driving behaviour over time.
Innisfil’s ASE program has already demonstrated success in reducing vehicle speeds. Based on a sample of one week’s data while the camera was operating during its first placement in front of Nantyr Shores Secondary School, 85 per cent of drivers were going 41 km/hr or less in both directions, compared to 62 km/h before the camera was installed.
In addition to covering program costs such as camera hardware and servicing, signage, and processing fees, program revenue supports the maintenance of other traffic safety measures around town and new traffic safety initiatives related to education, enforcement, and traffic safety engineering projects. This investment will help make roads all across Innisfil safer for residents.
Learn more at innisfil.ca/ASE.
