Toronto, Ontario Speed Traps

Heading east along Eglinton, there is a traffic light at Leslie Ave. Once you past the light, you are travelling up a hill which crests underneath an overhead railway. As you come down the other side, the police are backed up in a field (cruiser hidden), and stand behind a light pole. Using laser they nab people who are cruising down the hill and trying to maintain speed to climb the other side of the valley.

They hide in an access road where a condo is being bulit (I think), with the cruiser usually parked well back so approaching motorists can’t spot it until they’re almost right on top of it. This is a 50 km/h zone but it is a valley with a steep decline and then incline (like the bottom of a bowl) so people often accelerate down the hill to give themselves a little bit of an advantage going uphill on the other side. I wouldn’t try more than 60 km/h on a good day (i.e. when it’s clear and you know they’re not around because you can’t see them), though I regularly see people going at least 70 km/h.

Cops have a radar set up near down the hill, beside the HUMBER RIVER, 50KM/H watch your speed! else you get banged

If you are driving West on Steeles towards Bayview there’s a bridge just before you hit the plaza at Steeles & Laureleat & the cops are waiting for you right there on the grass on the right side. Sometimes you can’t see them until it’s too late.

Eastbound on Lawrence at Kimbark, one block before Avenue Rd. Haven’t seen them there before.