Police ticket 29 drivers and counting during third Oliver Road speeding blitz

Drivers in Thunder Bay don’t appear to be getting the message police are trying to deliver.

Continuing their speeding blitz on Oliver Road on Friday, Det. Const. Robert Miller said one woman has been pulled over twice, on different days, and ticketed for speeding more than 20-kilometres an hour over the posted 50-kilometre-an-hour limit.

Miller added in less than three hours on Friday the traffic unit had handed out 29 speeding infractions, the most of any of the three days they’ve spent across from Lakehead University.

“Typically Oliver Road is a fast area for drivers,” Miller said. “There are other areas of the city that are the same that we sit at and target as well.

“The problem we have here is there are a lot of pedestrian traffic as well and that’s what makes this a little more safety conscious and why we’re here today.”

Miller said given the amount of publicity the first two days of the blitz received in the local media, it’s astonishing to see drivers aren’t slowing down.

“I just don’t understand why people aren’t doing anything,” he said.

“People just aren’t understanding that the speeds are dangerous.”

Miller said the blitz will shift to other areas of the city once they’re done on Oliver Road.

“We’re going to focus some things on Balmoral Street. Rossyln Road, we’ve been getting some complaints there, the same as John Street Road in front of the school,” he said.

Police handed out more than 20 tickets on Tuesday and an additional 25 on Friday during an afternoon Oliver Road blitz.