The Capital Regional District is asking the province to consider installing speed cameras on a section of the Trans-Canada Highway.
In a letter to Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth and Attorney General David Eby, the CRD is requesting the camera system be installed on a 20-kilometre stretch of the Malahat between Langford Parkway and Mill Bay Road.
The cameras would be located at fixed positions and would record licence plates, as well as the time it takes vehicles to travel from one point to another.
If a vehicle is found to be travelling too fast, the driver is automatically mailed a speeding ticket.
Barbara Desjardins, the chair of the CRD, says the interval-based speed enforcement system has been successful in “every jurisdiction which it has been employed.”
“The goal of this request is to make our roads safer and to provide disincentives to drivers who create unsafe conditions through excessive speed on our roads,” the letter reads.
Desjardins says the Cowichan Valley Regional District supports the installation of the surveillance cameras.
