A commitment to clamp down on speeders in Charlottetown led to a near doubling of tickets for traffic violations in Charlottetown in October.

'It's my intention to continue the same presence on the streets.'— Police committee chair Cecil Villard

Charlottetown council added $20,000 to the police budget for overtime that would allow police to go after speeders in the last three months of this year.

It led to almost 600 tickets for traffic violations written in October, compared to 320 in September.

"We are targeting different areas of Charlottetown at different times," said police Const. Gary Clow.

"We will be out there tomorrow, the next day, perhaps next week. It just depends."

Speed traps have been catching speeders in bunches. One day last week, police set up a speed trap on the North River Road causeway. In an hour and a half, 21 drivers were caught speeding.

Program funding to continue in 2007

Police committee chair Cecil Villard told CBC News money for overtime will continue into the new year.

"When I made the initial announcement, it was until the end of December, because that's the end of this budget year," said Villard.

"But it's my intention to continue the same presence on the streets, up until the point in time where we have some decision on whether we're going to have photo radar, or whether we get the approval for the three additional police officers."

Villard said council is still waiting to hear if the province plans to make the needed changes to allow photo radar on city streets.