Photo radar camera in the Glebe issues 2,100 tickets in the first month

Statistics show the photo radar camera on First Avenue near Glebe Collegiate Institute issued 2,175 tickets for speeding in November.

The first photo radar camera set up in the Glebe nabbed hundreds of drivers in its first month of operation, as the city of Ottawa continues to ramp up the automated speed enforcement camera program.

Statistics show the photo radar camera on First Avenue near Glebe Collegiate Institute issued 2,175 tickets for speeding in November.  The camera is located on First Avenue, between Chrysler Street and Percy Street, and data shows 129 tickets were issued in October.

Ottawa's 28 automated speed enforcement cameras issued 31,462 tickets for speeding in November, the highest number of tickets issued by the cameras in a month in 2023. The cameras issued 29,857 tickets in August and 27,655 tickets in July.

The camera on St. Laurent Boulevard, between Noranda Avenue and Clarke Avenue, issued 3,022 tickets in November, the highest number of tickets issued in the month by one camera.   The camera on Cedarview Road in Barrhaven, near Cedarview Middle School, issued 2,769 tickets in November, while the camera on Cambrian Road, between Greenbank Road and Kilbirnie Drive, issued 2,492 tickets in November.

City data shows the camera on Woodroffe Avenue, between Anthony Avenue and Saville Row, issued 2,345 tickets in November, its first full month of operation.

The 31,462 speeding tickets issued in November is the highest number of tickets issued in one month since Ottawa launched the automated speed enforcement camera program in 2020. The highest number of tickets issued in a month in 2022 was 28,142 tickets in July.

Photo radar cameras issued 196,447 tickets for speeding in the first 11 months of 2023, according to city of Ottawa data. Eighteen of the city's 28 cameras have been in operation since the start of the year, and four cameras have only issued tickets for two months.