Mayor Cam Guthrie says one one of the biggest complaints he hears about automated speed cameras is the long gap between the infraction and when people get their ticket.
But that could change this summer.
"It's the main complaint I hear," Guthrie said at a meeting of Guelph City Council Tuesday regarding the gap in the ticket being delivered.
"Thirty days later, people are getting their ticket. If this is supposed to be about safety and changing behaviour, why is it 30 days?"
Steven Anderson, manager of transportation and engineering, said there is a pilot project underway that would see tickets processed the "day of" the infraction and that they hope that process will be in place for the entire program by the time it is expanded in Guelph in August. Tickets would then be sent out sooner.
Eight new automated speed cameras are expected to go live in Guelph on Aug. 1, although their locations have not yet been revealed.
During the road safety discussion, Ward 1 councillor Dan Gibson asked if the centre-lane bollards that have been used as traffic calming on several busy roads in Guelph could be combined with the speed cameras.
"Everyone slows down when those are used together," Gibson said.
Gibson also touched on the misnomer that speed cameras are a 'cash cow' for the municipality.
"The cameras should never be seen as a revenue stream. The idea is zero revenue," he said.
"Ideally we would be spending money on this and there is zero revenue" if people adhered to the speed limit and made the road safer," Gibson said.