How James Pasternak voted at council

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1. 2025.IE24.13AMENDED

   Optimizing the Automated Speed Enforcement Program to Stop Speeding

   Speed kills. Since 2024, 250 Torontonians have died or been seriously injured on our roads. We must do everything we can to eliminate these tragedies, including optimizing our use of tools like automated speed enforcement. Earlier this year, 15-year-old Christina Huang was killed on a neighbourhood street near Finch Avenue East and McCowan Road in Scarborough. Neighbours say cars regularly drive well over the speed limit in that area even though there were multiple schools nearby. This risk to life is never worth saving a few seconds here or there. We know that speed is a major factor in whether a pedestrian lives or dies. A collision at 30 kilometres per hour has a 90 percent survival rate for pedestrians. At 45 kilometres per hour the survival rate drops to 50 percent and at 80 kilometres per hour survival is near zero. Fortunately, we have a tool that is proven to reduce speeding. automated speed enforcement cameras have been used in Toronto since 2020. Toronto only places cameras in designated community safety zones and operates automated speed enforcement in accordance with provincial law. A recent study by SickKids and Toronto Metropolitan University researchers found that a…

   City Council · 2025-10-08 16:58 PM

   Adopt Item as Amended

   James Pasternak's vote: Absent

   Majority required - IE24.13 - Adoption of Infrastructure and Environment Committee Recommendation 7 only

   Motion result

   Carried

   Recorded tally

   24-1

   Source outcome