Photo radar locations in Edmonton now available online

The City of Edmonton is now publishingthe location of photo radar enforcement in the cityon a weekly basis.

In making the announcement at a council meeting on Tuesday, Coun. Dave Loken said for him, providing theinformation is an experiment.

"I want to see if people are actually going to pay attention enoughand in fact slow down," said Loken.

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"If we're getting less revenue because people are slowing downand our streets are safer, that's a success story," he added.

The first list was published July 1, said Gary Dyck, communications adviser for traffic safety.

"A total of 919 people saw that first one," he said.

There weresome glitches with getting the latest list published online, butit is now available, Dyck said.

The list does not include a specific time when a camera may be operating at the location and Lokensaid that needs to change.

"People should know at any given time, in any given part of the city, where the location is going to be," Lokensaid. "If that's not the case then that's something we need to work on."

He would also like to see signswarning driverswhen a photo radar officer is at a specific location.

But Dyckwarnedproviding this specific information may be difficult, since enforcement officers shift around on short notice due toconstruction and weather.

While advocating for disclosure of sitesLoken said if drivers aren't speeding, they don't need to worrywhere photo radar enforcement is set up.

"It's about people paying attention behind the wheel," he said.