iN NUMBERS: Southern Interior residents want us all to slow down

It’s not just cranky old folks shaking their fists at clouds that want to see lower speed limits in BC.

Most people in the Southern BC Interior are on board with the idea of lower residential speed limits and more cameras to help with enforcement.

Here are the numbers from a Research Co. poll:

• 71: Per cent of people in Southern Interior approve of fixed speed cameras that measure speed as a car passes that could be put in school zones.
• 57: Per cent of people in Southern Interior said they approve of point-to-point enforcement cameras that measure a vehicle’s speed and can be used to issue speeding tickets.
• 46: Per cent of people in Southern Interior say they see a car speeding on their street at least once a day.
• 65: Per cent of people in Southern Interior think a 30 km/h speed limit on local streets is a good idea.
• 77: Per cent of British Columbians aged 18 to 34 think it’s a good idea to reduce residential speed limits to 30 km/h.
• 58: Per cent of people in Southern Interior would like to see the speed limit on residential streets go down to 30 km/h while keeping arterial roads at 50 km/h.
• 72: Per cent of BC NDP voters would like to see speed limits on residential streets go down to 30 km/h, the highest rate for any provincial political party.
• 46,570: Speeding tickets were issued in BC in 2024.
• 80,430: Red light tickets were issued in BC in 2024.
• 4: Per cent of speeding and red light violation tickets were disputed in BC in 2024.
• 16: Million dollars. That’s how much money the provincial government collected from red light and speeding violations in BC in 2024.