I certainly won't be patronizing Spruce Grove anymore. I usually come in from Acheson for lunch and shopping but the $405 ticket for not comping yo a complete dead stop in addition to other very low speed violations is pathetic. I'll take my chances in Edmonton from now on. Good job City of Spruce Grove.
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Mike Harris
5 years ago
When your issuing tickets at 10 kms over, that is bs. An rcmp won't pull you over unless your doing 11 kms over or faster. It is not a deterant, it is a cash grab,
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Dan Peter
9 years ago
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I have never had an accident in all my 32 years of driving. Add to this I have never had a private citizen file grievance against me in my life. I have lived in Calgary for six years and never once received a ticket for anything. I have lived in Spruce Grove now for 8 years and have payed somewhere around two thousand dollars in local fines. I am very sure that everyone living in Spruce Grove receives yearly tickets in the mail and can relate to my experience. I have become a driver who is constantly focussed on the potential camera hiding somewhere. If mobility is a hallmark of freedom then this is an attack on freedom. Those who trade in freedom for safety receive neither!...this isn't about the guy in the red Camaro anymore, it's about money and the family in the minivan.
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Curtis Brandon
9 years ago
Its getting rediculous!
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Daniel Paquette
10 years ago
I agree. This photo radar is getting completely out of hand here in Spruce Grove. I am 61 years old and am a good driver. I didn't get a ticket for years and years and now have gotten 2 of them in 6 months! The first one is because I went over the speed limit only for a few seconds on Hwy 16 close to Century Road and now for not stopping at a stop sign, which I always do by the way, which cost me $388!
It looks like I did not come to a COMPLETE stop. By the way, in the photo, my break lights were on! It's a cash grab pure and simple. The city of Spruce Grove has got to STOP nickel & diming the drivers. Stop fining people for basically minor infractions.
On a different note: when I moved here in 1996 it was a nice and QUIET place. Now all I here is loud motorcycles and 'suped' up car engines going up and down Grove Meadow Drive.
I don't see the police doing anything about that though! Why? Is it too hard? I guess it's just easier to get cash from fines from photographs. Something has got to be done about this. This photo radar has become abusive! It's just not right! Because of this, S.G. has a bad reputation for nailing suckers who drive by and in this city.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Stop the cash grab
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Jess
10 years ago
I would much rather be pulled over by a cop then get a picture in the mail! Make the speeding ticket count not just have intrapment traps!
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Bruce laird
10 years ago
Photo radar is a total money grab I got a ticket by century road for doing 11 km over the speed limit totally unfair
If it isn't a money grab all money collected from photo radar should be donated to people in need
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Betty Kmiec
10 years ago
All the camera does is catch the person not speeding. The ones rushing by me don't get tickets or they wouldn't be doing it.
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Bonnie Friesen
10 years ago
I must agree. Money grab!! Better to put men and women to work enforcing our laws.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Tired of obeying the law and then see people speed up to get though the damn lights in this city, or just go through them. Put them where they matter, they are everywhere PLUS the vehicles parked doing photo radar. Cash cow exactly!!!!!
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Karen jacobs
10 years ago
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Put them in school zones, where they might do some good. There are more accidents because of these, as people try to hurry through lights so they won't have at a red light at every intersection!!
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Betty Meads
10 years ago
Totally agree!!!
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Nicole
10 years ago
Get rid of the photo radar
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Anonymous
10 years ago
This is nothing but a cash cow!!! you don't even know when you got the ticket because it comes weeks later in the mail!!! and if you have hours to spare and go on your court date they will cut the ticket usual in half!! sometimes he deletes it!!!
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Deborah Lunden
10 years ago
Let's do this!! Together we WILL get results!! Thanks
I certainly won't be patronizing Spruce Grove anymore. I usually come in from Acheson for lunch and shopping but the $405 ticket for not comping yo a complete dead stop in addition to other very low speed violations is pathetic. I'll take my chances in Edmonton from now on. Good job City of Spruce Grove.
When your issuing tickets at 10 kms over, that is bs. An rcmp won't pull you over unless your doing 11 kms over or faster. It is not a deterant, it is a cash grab,
I have never had an accident in all my 32 years of driving. Add to this I have never had a private citizen file grievance against me in my life. I have lived in Calgary for six years and never once received a ticket for anything. I have lived in Spruce Grove now for 8 years and have payed somewhere around two thousand dollars in local fines. I am very sure that everyone living in Spruce Grove receives yearly tickets in the mail and can relate to my experience. I have become a driver who is constantly focussed on the potential camera hiding somewhere. If mobility is a hallmark of freedom then this is an attack on freedom. Those who trade in freedom for safety receive neither!...this isn't about the guy in the red Camaro anymore, it's about money and the family in the minivan.
Its getting rediculous!
I agree. This photo radar is getting completely out of hand here in Spruce Grove. I am 61 years old and am a good driver. I didn't get a ticket for years and years and now have gotten 2 of them in 6 months! The first one is because I went over the speed limit only for a few seconds on Hwy 16 close to Century Road and now for not stopping at a stop sign, which I always do by the way, which cost me $388! It looks like I did not come to a COMPLETE stop. By the way, in the photo, my break lights were on! It's a cash grab pure and simple. The city of Spruce Grove has got to STOP nickel & diming the drivers. Stop fining people for basically minor infractions. On a different note: when I moved here in 1996 it was a nice and QUIET place. Now all I here is loud motorcycles and 'suped' up car engines going up and down Grove Meadow Drive. I don't see the police doing anything about that though! Why? Is it too hard? I guess it's just easier to get cash from fines from photographs. Something has got to be done about this. This photo radar has become abusive! It's just not right! Because of this, S.G. has a bad reputation for nailing suckers who drive by and in this city. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !
Stop the cash grab
I would much rather be pulled over by a cop then get a picture in the mail! Make the speeding ticket count not just have intrapment traps!
Photo radar is a total money grab I got a ticket by century road for doing 11 km over the speed limit totally unfair If it isn't a money grab all money collected from photo radar should be donated to people in need
All the camera does is catch the person not speeding. The ones rushing by me don't get tickets or they wouldn't be doing it.
I must agree. Money grab!! Better to put men and women to work enforcing our laws.
Tired of obeying the law and then see people speed up to get though the damn lights in this city, or just go through them. Put them where they matter, they are everywhere PLUS the vehicles parked doing photo radar. Cash cow exactly!!!!!
Put them in school zones, where they might do some good. There are more accidents because of these, as people try to hurry through lights so they won't have at a red light at every intersection!!
Totally agree!!!
Get rid of the photo radar
This is nothing but a cash cow!!! you don't even know when you got the ticket because it comes weeks later in the mail!!! and if you have hours to spare and go on your court date they will cut the ticket usual in half!! sometimes he deletes it!!!
Let's do this!! Together we WILL get results!! Thanks