The head of a provincewide road safety organization wants Ontario Premier Doug Ford to change regulations to address concerns about automated speed cameras rather than abolish them.

Geoff Wilkinson, the executive director of the Ontario Traffic Council, says Ford can easily change the regulations to limit where the speed cameras can be placed, and to stop the practice of ticketing drivers for going slightly over the limit.

In response to an outcry from drivers, Ford says the province will introduce legislation to abolish the cameras.

Wilkinson, who heads the 75-year-old agency that shares best practices for road safety, design and enforcement, says provincial legislation was passed in 2017 to allow the speed cameras, the regulations came in 2019, and hundreds are now in place in munic

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