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After racking up millions in ticket revenue from its annual street cleaning program, the city is exploring plans to minimize the window in which residents would be penalized for not moving their vehicles.

In a letter slated to come to council on Monday, the city’s roads department responded to concerns by the head of the city’s transportation committee, Coun. Shane Keating, after he questioned the ticket tally from this year’s cleaning program, which as of last week had handed out 35,489 infractions and towed 826 vehicles.

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Both the councillor and city agree an improvement could be made by mounting photo enforcement cameras on the sweeping fleet, instead of relying on the Calgary Parking Authority to ticket non-compliant residents.

“We could have the camera technology mounted on our flusher truck or on our sweeper trucks and that would tighten up the window for when people absolutely have to be out of the way,” Troy McLeod, the city’s director of roads, told Postmedia on Saturday.