WiseUpWinnipeg is a large community based public advocacy group with many volunteer advocates, over 14,000 concerned members and growing rapidly. It was created by local citizens (Todd Dube, a retired WPS police officer and seveal others) to educate Winnipeggers on the facts of photo and other predatory traffic and parking enforcement – including the false claims that the photo enforcement program has had a positive impact on safety in the City of Winnipeg. Over the years, their efforts have grown into the respected movement that it is today.

Further, WiseUpWinnipeg is here for productive sharing of news and information about traffic and parking engineering, signage, enforcement and promoting fair or lawful behaviour by WPS, City of Winnipeg, the Province and MPI for enforcement and related plus exposing when this not done.

We are advocating for the Province of Manitoba (including the City of Winnipeg) to amend the HTA and City Bylaws to require compliance with National Traffic and Engineering standards (as outlined in MUTCD, ITE and others), including signage, application of the 85th percentile engineering principle, safe amber times and related standards as required by law in, for example, Ontario and elsewhere, but being ignored in Winnipeg.

This is, in the interest of true motoring and pedestrian SAFETY plus safe efficient traffic flow.

WiseUpWinnipeg has openly disputed the photo enforcement positions taken by the City and Province, showing rather that the program is a detriment to safety and is purely a revenue program.

By using Low Speed Thresholds, Inadequate Amber Times and Inadequate Signage, the program sets up motorists and produces “violations”.

Todd Dube is a Winnipeg businessman who now oversees the group along with a group of dedicated Volunteer advocates who all share the motivation to inform the public of the facts and history of photo enforcement and similar aggressive and predatory officer and parking enforcement plus related.

This team has been leading by example with contacting elected and appointed officials, filing formal complaints and helping others do similar. They offer solutions and have helped bring the much needed reforms.

Mr. Dube provided for the cost of the $low Down Photo Enforcement Ahead, $short Amber Ahead and other awareness placards used during peaceful protests in engineering deficient locations and other resources. “To me photo-radar and similar unfair or unlawful enforcement represents more than just the cash-grab that it certainly is – it’s also symbolic of how far we’ve let our governments and bureaucracies run astray.

Our politicians, police and bureaucrats should be ashamed of themselves for employing the word “safety” in their notional pursuit of fundraising from drivers and vehicle owners. We hope citizens wise up and question all aspects of this program including how it is that we listen endlessly to politicians talk about complexities, legislation and other obstructions that impede them from making real progress on issues, including real public safety issues, yet a few can get together on a Friday night and change the wording of the law so that not only can this fundraising scheme continue – it also doesn’t have to refund its ill-gotten gains.

We have been ignored by the establishment long enough and it’s time the public delivered the message that ignoring the facts is no longer an option. They cannot support their claim of improved safety, which is required for the programs’ continued existence and it’s time they answered on it.”

To learn more, view or join the discussions on our Facebook Group

The focus of the Facebook Group is on keeping informed, on intelligent conversation, on civil communication, no personal attacks, no swearing or derogatory words, no disparaging of others… including police.

Please stay on topic, and be advised, off topic posts may be deleted.

Please keep posts and comments relevant, productive and respectful to the groups focus as clearly stated above.

If you see posts that are against group rules or suspicious posts please report them to an admin immediately using the options on the post or comment. Beware of posts or comments on Facebook or elsewhere redirecting you via gifs or other links to 3rd party pages. Some have been found to try and compromise your account. Be cautious and do not open gifs or links in posts unless they are from a known and trusted source.

Get involved and share your relevant experience whether it on the road or in traffic court or elsewhere related. The better informed the group and public become of this abuse the better it can work together to bring positive change.

We have several legal actions underway and planned… Please consider donating to help us get these serious issues addressed in the interest of safety and efficient traffic flow first, and not for government revenue generation.

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