Item - 2025.MM33.2
Tracking Status
- City Council adopted this item on October 8 and 9, 2025 with amendments.
MM33.2 - Making our Communities Safe by Supporting a Common Sense Approach to Speed Cameras - by Councillor Josh Matlow, seconded by Councillor Jamaal Myers
- Decision Type:
- ACTION
- Status:
- Amended
- Wards:
- All
City Council Decision
City Council on October 8 and 9, 2025, adopted the following:
1. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services, in consultation with the Executive Director, Court Services, to report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee in the fourth quarter of 2025 on the Automated Speed Enforcement Program, including:
a. data on the impact of Automated Speed Enforcement Program cameras on road safety, including the reduction of pedestrian fatalities, severe injuries and collisions;
b. practices related to the issuance of Automated Speed Enforcement infractions;
c. measures to ensure more clear signage around speed cameras;
d. data on the number of tickets issued and the average speeds at which the vehicles were observed exceeding the posted speed limit, broken down by speed camera location; and
e. a breakdown of the City of Toronto’s annual spending on Traffic Calming measures city-wide, for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
2. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to:
a. implement a reasonable threshold of enforcement that will ensure drivers who are inadvertently and not excessively exceeding the speed limit not be fined; and
b. report on the average speed limit infractions since 2020 when the program began, the number of infractions issued, and the lowest recorded speed at which a ticket was issued.
3. City Council request the City Solicitor, in consultation with the General Manger, Transportation Services, to report to City Council in the fourth quarter of 2025 with options to protect all of the City’s Vision Zero Road Safety tools, including the use of automated enforcement technology.
City Council Decision Advice and Other Information
City Council considered the following items together:
MM33.2 headed “Making our Communities Safe by Supporting a Common Sense Approach to Speed Cameras - by Councillor Josh Matlow, seconded by Councillor Jamaal Myers”.
IE24.4 headed “Review of Automated Speed Enforcement Ticket Appeals Process”;
IE24.13 headed “Optimizing the Automated Speed Enforcement Program to Stop Speeding”;
SC25.31 headed “Kingston Road - Community Safety Zone”; and
TE25.65 headed “Establishing a Community Safety Zone on Dovercourt Road, between College Street and Dundas Street West”.
Background Information (City Council)
Communications (City Council)
Motions (City Council)
Speaker Nunziata advised Council that the provisions of Chapter 27, Council Procedures, require that Motion MM33.2 be referred to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee. A two-thirds vote of the Council Members present is required to waive referral.
That City Council amend Recommendation 1 by:
a. adding the words "in consultation with the Executive Director, Court Services" after the words "Transportation Services";
b. deleting the words "Automated Speed Cameras" and replacing them with the words "Automated Speed Enforcement Program"; and
c. adding the following new parts:
d. data on the number of tickets issued and the average speeds at which the vehicles were observed exceeding the posted speed limit, broken down by speed camera location; and
e. a breakdown of the City of Toronto’s annual spending on Traffic Calming measures city-wide, for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
so that Recommendation 1 now reads as follows:
1. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services, in consultation with the Executive Director, Court Services, to report to the Infrastructure and Environment Committee in the fourth quarter of 2025 on the Automated Speed Enforcement Program Cameras, including:
a. data on the impact of Automated Speed Enforcement Program cameras on road safety, including the reduction of pedestrian fatalities, severe injuries and collisions;
b. practices related to the issuance of Automated Speed Enforcement infractions;
c. measures to ensure more clear signage around speed cameras;
d. data on the number of tickets issued and the average speeds at which the vehicles were observed exceeding the posted speed limit, broken down by speed camera location; and
e. a breakdown of the City of Toronto’s annual spending on Traffic Calming measures city-wide, for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025.
That City Council amend Recommendation 2 by deleting Part 2.b.
Part to be deleted:
b. give notice of this threshold to the public to promote transparency and public confidence.
and replacing with the following:
b. report on the average speed limit infractions since 2020 when the program began, the number of infractions issued, and the lowest recorded speed at which a ticket was issued.
so that Recommendation 2 now reads as follows:
2. City Council request the General Manager, Transportation Services to:
a. implement a reasonable threshold of enforcement that will ensure drivers who are inadvertently and not excessively exceeding the speed limit not be fined; and
b. report on the average speed limit infractions since 2020 when the program began, the number of infractions issued, and the lowest recorded speed at which a ticket was issued.
Vote (Amend Item) Oct-08-2025 5:01 PM
| Result: Carried | Majority Required - MM33.2 - Myers - motion 2 |
|---|---|
| Total members that voted Yes: 20 | Members that voted Yes are Paul Ainslie, Alejandra Bravo, Jon Burnside, Shelley Carroll, Lily Cheng, Rachel Chernos Lin, Olivia Chow, Mike Colle, Paula Fletcher, Parthi Kandavel, Ausma Malik, Nick Mantas, Josh Matlow, Chris Moise, Amber Morley, Jamaal Myers, Frances Nunziata (Chair), Gord Perks, Dianne Saxe, Neethan Shan |
| Total members that voted No: 5 | Members that voted No are Brad Bradford, Vincent Crisanti, Stephen Holyday, Anthony Perruzza, Michael Thompson |
| Total members that were Absent: 1 | Members that were absent are James Pasternak |
Adoption of Recommendation 3 only:
3. City Council request the City Solicitor, in consultation with the General Manger, Transportation Services, to report to City Council in the fourth quarter of 2025 with options to protect all of the City’s Vision Zero Road Safety tools, including the use of automated enforcement technology.
Vote (Adopt Item as Amended) Oct-08-2025 5:11 PM
| Result: Carried | Majority Required - MM33.2 - Adoption of Recommendation 3 only |
|---|---|
| Total members that voted Yes: 22 | Members that voted Yes are Paul Ainslie, Alejandra Bravo, Jon Burnside, Lily Cheng, Rachel Chernos Lin, Olivia Chow, Mike Colle, Vincent Crisanti, Paula Fletcher, Parthi Kandavel, Ausma Malik, Nick Mantas, Josh Matlow, Chris Moise, Amber Morley, Jamaal Myers, Frances Nunziata (Chair), Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, Dianne Saxe, Neethan Shan, Michael Thompson |
| Total members that voted No: 2 | Members that voted No are Brad Bradford, Stephen Holyday |
| Total members that were Absent: 2 | Members that were absent are Shelley Carroll, James Pasternak |
Adoption of balance of the item as amended.
Vote (Adopt Item as Amended) Oct-08-2025 5:12 PM
| Result: Carried | Majority Required - MM33.2 - Adoption of balance of the item as amended |
|---|---|
| Total members that voted Yes: 24 | Members that voted Yes are Paul Ainslie, Brad Bradford, Alejandra Bravo, Jon Burnside, Lily Cheng, Rachel Chernos Lin, Olivia Chow, Mike Colle, Vincent Crisanti, Paula Fletcher, Stephen Holyday, Parthi Kandavel, Ausma Malik, Nick Mantas, Josh Matlow, Chris Moise, Amber Morley, Jamaal Myers, Frances Nunziata (Chair), Gord Perks, Anthony Perruzza, Dianne Saxe, Neethan Shan, Michael Thompson |
| Total members that voted No: 0 | Members that voted No are |
| Total members that were Absent: 2 | Members that were absent are Shelley Carroll, James Pasternak |
Prior to the vote on the item as amended, Councillor Holyday, rising on a Point of Order, stated that he would like the item as amended to be read out so that he knows exactly what it says.
Councillor Holyday, rising on a Point of Order, requested that Council vote separately on parts 2b and 3.