City will be installing six mobile ASE cameras near schools. They will be placed in Community Safety Zones where drivers need to reduce their speed and obey posted limits.

By Pepper Parr

September 16th, 2025

BURLINGTON, ON

I really wanted to be there when Her Worship provided detail on the Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras are going to be installed.

When the city announced the event was going to take place, the City Communications people referred to the Mayor as Her Worship.

I was looking forward to using the Honorific in a public setting.

But while chatting with friends after the Burlington Community Foundation event, I was alerted to a tip from a very reliable source that Natalie Peirre intended to resign as the MPP for Burlington.

I chose instead to rush back to the newsroom and get the story out.

We have yet to hear from MPP Pierre.

Marianne Meed Ward did the requisite photo op with most of her Council standing with her.  Sharman and Galbraith took a pass.

The City of Burlington has installed “Municipal Speed Camera Coming Soon” signs to give drivers at least 90 days’ notice before the Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) cameras are installed and activated. These signs will be changed to “Municipal Speed Camera In Use” once the cameras are active.

From L – R: City of Burlington Councillors Angelo Bentivegna, Ward 5; Shawna Stolte, Ward 4; Lisa Kearns, Ward 2; Rory Nisan, Ward 3; Mayor Marianne Meed Ward; Craig Kummer, City of Burlington Director, Transportation Services; Chair of the Board, Amy Collard, Burlington Ward 5 Trustee, Halton District School Board; City of Burlington Transportation Staff Chris King, Manager, Transportation Operations; Josip Kafadar, Supervisor, Transportation Operations; Bryan Letoureau, Supervisor, School Crossing Guards.

ASE Camera Locations

The City will be installing six mobile ASE cameras near schools. They will be placed in Community Safety Zones where drivers need to reduce their speed and obey posted limits. Every six months, the cameras will move to another location to keep students safe.

At least 90 days before the cameras are active, there will be a “Municipal Speed Camera Coming Soon” sign. These signs will be changed to “Municipal Speed Camera In Use” once the cameras are active.

Ward 1 – Aldershot Secondary School – Fairwood Place West

Ward 2 – St. John’s (Burlington) Catholic Elementary School and Central Public School – Brant Street

Ward 3 – Kilbride Public School – Kilbride Street

Ward 4 – Sir Ernest Macmillan Public School – Headon Road

Ward 5 – St. Christopher Catholic Elementary School – Sutton Drive

Ward 6 – Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School – Headon Forest Drive

ASE Benefits

A number of studies show the benefits of municipal automated speed enforcement programs:

• Improved road safety – A SickKids and Toronto Metropolitan University study (July 2025) confirmed that ASE cameras are improving road safety. For every 1 km/h a driver slows down, it reduces the risk of a fatal collision by four to five per cent.
• Significant speed reduction – The City of Toronto found that ASE cameras reduced the number of speeding vehicles by 45 per cent across 250 urban school zones. This included an 88 per cent decrease in vehicles travelling more than 20 km/h over the speed limit.
• Cost effective – Speed limits are the law. Using ASE cameras allows police to focus on other community safety issues. The fines from the ASE cameras will go into the City’s Road Safety Reserve Fund. This fund is used for road safety initiatives, such as this one.
• Public support – A CAA South Central Ontario survey found that nearly three-quarters of Ontario drivers support ASE use in targeted safety zones such as schools and community centres.

Craig Kummer, Transportation Director said that for “Every dollar collected through ASE will be reinvested directly into road safety initiatives to further enhance the well-being of our residents.”

Couple of questions were raised by some of our readers.  Why do the cameras have to be in operation during those hours the school are not open?

Has the budget any idea how much revenue the cameras will raise?  A camera in the city of Toronto has raised millions.  City of Vaughan decided not to put up with the blowback from citizens and cancelled the program.

Burlingtonians are too polite to get angry.

The cameras will begin to take pictures right around Christmas time.