Automated Speed Enforcement

ASE, uses cameras triggered by speed sensors that take photographs of the license plates of vehicles that are travelling in excess of the posted speed limit.

• With speed a factor in approximately one third of fatal collisions in Canada, ASE helps to enforce speed limits.
• ASE units are an important reminder to drivers to slow down in areas where children and other vulnerable road users are.
• Drivers travelling at the posted limit are more likely able to stop in the case of a spontaneous event and a lower speed can also mean a less severe outcome.
• If you drive the speed limit through school zones, ASE will not affect you at all.
• Evidence shows that driver behaviour begins to change over time with a “halo” effect created. This means that drivers may begin to adhere to the speed limit in areas even where ASE is not present, resulting in safer and more peaceful communities for everyone. 

The main objective of the ASE program is to lower speeds in school zones to be more in line with the posted speed limits.  Lower operating speeds reduces the likelihood and severity of collisions in those areas. 

Provincial legislation allows municipalities to create by-laws that permit the use of ASE units exclusively in school zones and community safety zones.

The following school zones will have ASE units installed and activated in September 2021:

• Cedar Creek Public School, Hilltop Drive, Township of North Dumfries
• Foundation Christian School, Katherine Street, Township of Woolwich
• Franklin Public School, Franklin Street, City of Kitchener
• Keatsway Public School, Keats Way, City of Waterloo
• Laurentian Public School, Westmount Road, City of Kitchener (Regional Road)
• New Dundee Public School, Bridge Street, Township of Wilmot (Regional Road)
• St. Clement Catholic Elementary School, Lobsinger Line, Township of Wellesley
• St. Gabriel Catholic Elementary, Guelph Avenue, City of Cambridge

 What times of the day are the cameras active?

There will be no disclosure with respect to camera active times under the program.  Observing the posted speed limits 24hrs per day and 7 days per week in school safety zones, will ensure that drivers are not issued a ticket under the Automated Speed Enforcement program.

Owners disputing the alleged infraction have the following options:

• Paying the provincial offence notice (the ticket), 
• Asking for a resolution (settlement) meeting with a prosecutor
• Having a trial before a Justice of the Peace. 

Convicted owners will not be subject to demerit points. 

Similar to red-light camera tickets, a photograph of the vehicle that was speeding will be on the offence notice along with and enlargement of the vehicle’s license plate.

The location of where and when the speeding offence occurred, as well as the speed of the vehicle and the posted speed limit will also be on the ticket.