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Is photo radar a tool to discourage speeding and increase safety?

Or is it merely a leadfoot tax meant to pad municipal coffers across Alberta?

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Those are questions to which Albertans have been waiting two years for answers.

And they’d be justified in asking if we’re going to get those answers before we go to the polls.

While Alberta has been dealing with rather pressing economic issues — ones that will weigh heavily in the spring election campaign — the NDP government felt it was worth poking into photo radar operations across the province.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason launched a review into Alberta’s photo radar guidelines way back in early 2017.

“This is a question of priorities and focus,” he said in May of that year.

“Safety is our top priority, so if people can show (photo radar) is improving safety on our roads for pedestrians and cyclists, then we’re going to be OK with that.”

That was at the halfway point of the NDP’s rookie mandate.