Drivers in Mississauga—west of Toronto—got a big surprise this week. The city installed speed bumps. Yeah, speed bumps! Turns out somebody at city hall finally discovered that if you want cars to stop speeding, you can put something on the road that makes them slow down.
The new traffic-calming setup runs between Truscott and Lakeshore, close to St. Christopher School. The city’s plan includes speed humps, a raised crosswalk and pedestrian crossings.
Funny how things change. Not long ago, Ontario cities were busy putting automated speed cameras near schools and calling it road safety. The car could fly past the school at 70 km/h and the camera did absolutely nothing to slow them.
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Under Ontario Premier Doug Ford, municipal speed cameras were eliminated in November 2025. Instead, the province created a fund for traffic calming measures like speed bumps, raised crossings and roundabouts. Now here comes the best part. A speed bump fails if drivers keep speeding over it. A speed camera makes zero dollars if everybody slows down. See the problem?
With the bump, success means every driver hits the brakes. Nobody gets a ticket. Nobody gets a bill. Nobody gets nailed three weeks later for something they already did. The bump just sits there doing the one thing a traffic-calming device is supposed to do: calm traffic.
Mississauga says these measures are meant to cut speeding and make the road safer for people walking and cycling. And Clarkson Road North may prove there was an amazingly simple way to slow cars all along. Just put a traffic calming measure on the road—no camera required.