The people signing this petition are also opposed to road redesigns, particularly ones involving road diets.

Design speed is the most important tool when it comes to managing speeds, but speed cameras are a useful tool in the toolbox to address specific problematic spots, in the very least until a design speed-based solution can be deployed, which may for economic reasons be when the road warrants resurfacing.

In Sweden, cameras are used to specifically reduce speed in crash-prone spots, such as in intersections where drivers merge onto a higher speed road. Drivers get advance notice in the form of a sign that a speed camera will be upcoming on the road in several hundred meters, and speed limit compliance naturally follows at the point of the camera. They are effective at reducing crashes when deployed in this manner.

The solution isn’t speed limit enforcement, it is road design.

I would generally agree with this sentiment. However, the behaviour of drivers these days goes well beyond road design. It's rabid entitlement, often aggressively so.

As an example, we design intersections so that vehicles can STOP and then proceed when safe. However, I very frequently see people ignoring stop signs and red lights. We NEED enforcement here, and no amount of acceptable* design will help.

*by acceptable, I mean something that NIMBYs won't complain about... which is often the biggest barrier to road design intended to keep speeds low or roads safe for other users.

And yes, road design helps. But we need to also make sure that those who ignore road design and legal speed limits are fined, and that's what speed cameras do - by the tens of thousands per location. Have them pay for better road design 🤭

Do you guys not put speed bumps on roads?

☝This, and also even if they didn't suck for the reasons you wrote, they would still be unacceptable because they further enable the surveillance state.

I find it very predatory how where I live, there are fully unmarked, tinted windowed SUVs parked on the least suspect places on the side of the road just for secret speed cameras, and it's even worse when the roads are as you mentioned, not designed for the speed limits imposed, but also the fact that the fines here are around $220 AUD (~€130 / ~$140 USD) is even worse.

If it was about speeding or safety they’d ... have police patrolling more often.

That's how we got here in the first place! Police don't make people safe. Enforcement cannot make an unsafe road in to a safe road.

they’re part of a mass surveillance system with the feature that records speed and adds that data along with all the other data it collects and associates with your plate number and any beacons your cell phone is transmitting.

Please share your source with us.

Do you have any proof that the cameras are communicating with cell phones? Do you have any proof that Canada is using these cameras to track plates?

Toronto can't seem to catch any of the vandals that are cutting down the cameras and i doubt the suspects leave their phones at home as photos of their destruction often make it onto social media.

What is this, Nazi Germany?