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Newly released figures show that as more speed cameras were activated around the province last year, the number of automatically issued speeding tickets in B.C. dramatically increased.

In 2018, the B.C. government announced they would upgrade red-light cameras at 35 of the province’s most dangerous intersections, to enable the cameras to bust speeders. The first five of those speed cameras were activated last summer, and as more cameras were activated over the year, the number of speeding tickets issued more than tripled between the third and fourth quarter of 2019, new statistics show.

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The B.C. government will activate additional speed cameras around the province over the next two months, starting with eight Metro Vancouver intersections on Feb. 24.

For the three-month period from July to September 2019, 2,370 speeding tickets were issued at the first five B.C. intersections where speed cameras had been activated. Then, for the three-month period ending last December, by which time 15 speed cameras had been activated, the number of speeding tickets issued shot to 7,353. (For comparison, police throughout B.C. issued a monthly average of 16,414 speed-related violation tickets in 2018, the most recent year for which data was available).