ICBC papers by Richard McCandless

BC Policy Perspectives Commentary: Government Uses Public Survey to Justify Increased Penalties on Higher Risk Drivers (May 20, 2018) Occasional Paper No. 56: Should The Government Return The $1.2 Billion Appropriated From ICBC Policyholders? (Apr. 19, 2018)...

“Lack of funding doomed photo radar”?

There’s been a spate of fossils coming out of the woodwork lately, extolling the virtues of Photo Radar. Witness former Ontario Premier Bob Rae, incapable of admitting a mistake, tweeting on February 23rd (twenty years after he lost an election in part due to...
UBCM – Speed Limits and Revenue Sharing

UBCM – Speed Limits and Revenue Sharing

A slightly shorter version of this article was published by The Vancouver Sun on Tuesday September 15th, 2015. The BC Government gives 100 per cent of ticket fine revenues to municipalities who want control over speed limits and who often influence how those limits...
Left Lane Bandits do not own the moral high ground, speed limit or no speed limit

Left Lane Bandits do not own the moral high ground, speed limit or no speed limit

Following this week’s announcement by MOTI Minister Todd Stone, that the BC Government plans to go ahead with long-awaited Keep Right Except to Pass legislation, Transit Police Chief and Chair of the BC Association of Chiefs of Police traffic subcommittee Neil Dubord...
Opinion: Photo radar won’t cure excessive speed

Opinion: Photo radar won’t cure excessive speed

Last week saw the publication of the “BC Coroners Service Child Death Review Panel, A Review of Young Driver Deaths, 2004-2013.” The panel’s core objective appears to be a renewed call for photo radar. To reduce public opposition they used the euphemisms of “time and...