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No speed traps for Edmonton, city officials promised Wednesday.

Where drivers are speeding because they’re unclear about the speed required, officials will first post more speed limit signs and digital speed reading devices before they turn to photo radar. They’ve already added nine new 50 kilometre per hour signs along 82 Avenue and 101 Avenue at high speed locations.

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“It seems to have made a big difference already,” said Coun. Ben Henderson, who had been fighting to get additional speed limit signs installed after residents complained they were getting unfair tickets.

Photo radar “should really be the last resort,” he said.

Henderson brought the issue to transportation committee after getting complaints about two key locations where the speed limit was 50 kilometres per hour. Both looked like speed traps because a high percentage of drivers were coming off of 60 kilometre per hour roads and didn’t realize they were going too fast. Drivers were getting ticketed rather than educated.