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Starting Tuesday, ICBC is turning on red light cameras at three dozen high risk intersections.
Anyone who enters an intersection on a solid red light will get a $167 ticket.
In all, 140 permanent cameras will be installed around the province during the next year as part of ICBC's $23-million intersection safety program.
ICBC's Director of Road Safety, Nicolas Jimenez, said during the last decade, 30 cameras have rotated around various intersections. Now, permanent sites are being set up.
"We're moving from 120 to 140 sites," he said. "What's really different is that we're decommissioning about half of the existing sites in the existing program because our analysis of where to locate an intersection safety program has essentially turned up better places to put these cameras. So, we're not looking for high volume intersections, we're looking for high risk intersections."
Jimenez said the money collected will go to municipalities, not ICBC.
He expects more than 30,000 tickets to be handed out in 2011.
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