TORONTO The City of Toronto is scrambling to figure out how much its employees owe in automated speeding and red light camera tickets after questions from CTV News Toronto. The confusion is thanks to the way the city handled the $85,000 in tickets it issued over the past year to many of its own employees: it pays up front, and then tries to recover the cost from the worker behind the wheel. At last count, the city could verify that $14,000 had been repaid under 20 per cent though the figures are in flux as staff reach out to the city’s divisions and agencies, which are individually responsible for enforcing the policy.
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As a years-long debate about narrowing a stretch of downtown Yonge Street so it works better for pedestrians and cyclists moved toward an overwhelming “yes” vote at city hall this week, Toronto Councillor Gord Perks tweeted that he was hearing “the gasping death rattle of autosaurus.”