Cars zoom past a vandalized traffic speed camera beside High Park in Toronto in 2023.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants municipalities to get rid of automated speed cameras – or else he will.

The City of Toronto says several automated speed cameras were cut down or vandalized in recent days, part of a continuing trend.

Ford calls the cameras nothing more than a cash grab for the city.

The Premier says if municipalities want to slow down traffic near schools, they need to put up “big huge signs, big flashing lights.”

The Editorial Board: Sorry, speed cameras aren’t the problem

Toronto first asked for speed cameras back in 2016 and a year later, then-premier Kathleen Wynne made changes to the Highway Traffic Act to allow for automated speed camera use in school and community zones.

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