8 new photo radar cameras activated on Ottawa roads in December: Here’s how many tickets each camera issued

A sign warning drivers that a municipal speed camera is in use along the roadway ahead. (CTV News Ottawa)

Two of Ottawa’s newest photo radar cameras caught more than 1,000 drivers speeding in their first month of operation, as the city continues to expand the automated speed enforcement camera program.

Fifty-seven photo radar cameras were in operation at the end of December, including eight new cameras activated in December and nine in November.

Statistics released by the city show the new camera on Merivale Road, between MacFarlane Road and Brookdale Avenue, issued 1,877 tickets in its first month of operation in December. The new camera on Stittsville Main Street, between Hobin Street and Beverly Street, issued 1,343 tickets in December.

Here is a look at the number of tickets issued by the eight new photo radar cameras in December. The report does not say when the cameras were activated:

• Merivale Road, between MacFarlane Road and Brookdale Avenue: 1,877 tickets
• Stittsville Main Street, between Hobin Street and Beverly Street: 1,343 tickets
• Longfields Drive, between Strandherd Dr. and Marketplace Ave: 426 tickets
• Ogilvie Road, between La Verendrye Drive and Kender Ave: 127 tickets
• Kitchener Avenue, between Cochrane Street and Jasper Ave: 92 tickets
• Gardenway Drive, between Saturn Cr./Paradise Cr. And Northlands Dr.: 76 tickets
• Crichton Street, between Vaughan Street and St. Patrick Street: 59 tickets
• Queen Mary Street, between Edith Avenue and Quill St.: 39 tickets

The camera on Walkley Road, between Colliston Court North/Albion Road and Colliston Court South, has caught 2,561 speeders in its first two months of operation. A total of 1,136 speeding tickets were issued in November and 1,425 tickets issued in December through the automated speed enforcement camera program.

Ottawa’s photo radar cameras caught a record number of speeders in 2024.

Statistics show 383,830 speeding tickets were issued through the automated speed enforcement program in 2024. There were 220,789 speeding tickets in 2023 (26 cameras), 127,939 tickets in 2022 (17 cameras) and 80,944 tickets in 2021 (eight cameras) through the photo radar camera program.

The city planned to have 60 photo radar cameras in operation by the end of 2024, with plans to install 24 new cameras this year.

Here is a look at the 10 busiest photo radar cameras in Ottawa in 2024

• King Edward Ave., between Bolton St. and St. Patrick St.: 59,656 tickets (February to December)
• Walkley Rd., between Halifax Dr. and Harding Rd.: 35,546 tickets (February to December)
• St-Laurent Blvd., between Noranda Ave. and Clarke Avenue: 20,824 tickets: (January to December)
• Cedarview Rd. between Fallowfield Rd. and Jockvale Rd.: 16,109 tickets (January to December)
• Katimavik Rd., between Castlefrank Rd. and McGibbon Dr./Sewall Way: 15,162 tickets (January to December)
• Riverside Dr., between Mooney’s Bay Pl. and Hog’s Back Rd.: 14,202 tickets (January to December)
• Woodroffe Ave., between Anthony Ave. and Saville Row: 13,773 tickets (January to December)
• Fisher Ave., between Kintyre Priv. and Deer Park Rd./Dynes Rd.: 13,717 tickets (January to December)
• Bronson Ave., between Raven Rd. and Sunnyside Ave./University Dr.: 13,112 tickets (February to December)
• Bayshore Dr., near Woodridge Cres.: 12,834 tickets (January to December)