There are certain views regarding the increased revenue for traffic tickets and the success of stopping traffic violations. Some feel that this is just a ploy by government to raise revenue. Fifteen million is serious cash during these hard times but there are those who say that getting off the Atwater exit into and a voiding a collision is what has saved lives lives and if that coincides with the increased amount connected to surveillance camera all the better. In the meantime the traffic speed has been reduced to 30 or 40 clicks per hour.


Having surveillance camera can be extended to school areas to reduce speeding further or poles can be implemented to discourage drivers from speeding that would reduce taxes on the setting up of those cameras that have also recently appeared in metros as big brother extends his tentacles in the city watching where you and I go at any moment. Constant vigilance is also a point of contention when it comes to not wanted to be in the eye of the city’s administration.

There is nothing pretty about the increased revenue when the money is not going to go into the building of a solid infrastructure like the replacement of a bridge but goes instead to enrich city coffers as tickets are given out only on certain days and not on others.
This is the reality of an issue which already many years old as other large cities like Rome used to have their traffic cops be more certain days and not others. It appeared that there was a demand to fill city coffers then as quotas were reported to exist. There too the money collected could have been used for the rebuilding of their metro line.

Montreal is dire need of an entire repaving of its streets compared to other Canadian cities its roads are all cracked and filled with holes and the bridges are ready to collapse except the Victoria one which is the oldest! Well that makes sense when one considers that at the end of the nineteen hundreds when it was built there was no skimping on materials as there is today. The Champlain, built in the early sixties is expected to collapse, which should there be a tremor in the city. Montreal is in an earthquake zone and has experienced tremors recently. An the supports to the Champlain bridge are so weak that a diver who works for the city’s engineering department would not want to travel across it. The Mercier has long been mentioned as a curse with recent closures due to gaping holes that allow to see the water below! It is a chronic problem that goes back to the childhood of this author as city administrations continue to patch it up here and there. Looks like were waiting for another collapse similar to the viaduct connecting Montreal to Laval, which killed 5 people in 2006. All this is said again as traffic ticket revenues are directed in to the coffers of a select few and is not being used to support the rebuilding of the roads and bridges.