More cameras will be coming to city streets in an effort to keep residents safe.
The Eye On The Street program works with City Council, Thunder Bay Police, tbaytel, as well as financial support from the Ministry of the Solicitor General’s Guns and Gangs Program.
After originally launching in 2005, the program has grown in Thunder Bay and have added more closed circuit cameras installed in key areas of the city.
Footage and information from the video monitoring is released in accordance with the standards of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
In the downtown cores and Business Improvement Areas, there were 13 camera locations. The expansion this year has blossomed to another 16 strategic areas within Thunder Bay.
The new camera locations include:
- City Hall and surrounding area
- Syndicate Avenue and Donald Street East intersection
- Victoria Avenue East and Archibald Street South intersection
- May Street South and Victoria Avenue Eeast intersection
- Harbour Expressway and Golf Links Road intersection
- Arthur Street and Mountdale Avenue intersection
- Neebing McIntyre Floodway -Memorial Bridge
- Neebing McIntyre Floodway – Fort William Bridge
- Red River Road and Junot Street S intersection
- Bay Street and Algoma Street S intersection
- Park Avenue – Casino walkway
- Red River Road and Court Street South intersection
- Red River Road and Cumberland Street South intersection
- Cumberland Street North and Camelot Street intersection
- Water Street Transit Terminal inside and surrounding area
- Landmark Inn, 1010 Dawson Road
More details on the City’s Eye On The Street program can be found here.