‘Hogwash’: Ford downplays speed camera effect as Toronto traffic fatalities hit record low in 2025

In 2025, Toronto’s streets were the safest they’ve been in over a decade, for both pedestrians and drivers. But this year, speed cameras have been reduced to stumps, not by vandals, but by the Premier of Ontario, and some officials say that will make roads more dangerous and more deadly.

Toronto doubled its number of speed cameras from 75 to 150 last year, a measure that studies show did change driving habits. By the end of 2025, the city saw its fewest fatalities and serious injuries since the beginning of the Vision Zero program.

“Speed safety cameras keep people safer, they keep kids safer, they actually keep drivers safer, and to throw them out the window was, I think, one of the worst things the Ford government has done,” said Coun. Paula Fletcher.

“There were less people seriously injured in crashes when we had speed cameras because they were going slower!”

But not everyone is convinced the cameras saved lives last year.