A driver from Calgary is sharing her frustration, after she received two speeding tickets from speed cameras in west Edmonton, taken ten seconds apart.

Susan McNab said when she first received the two tickets, she couldn’t believe she was issued two speeding tickets on the same day, but then she looked closer.

“Then I looked at the times, and they were taken ten seconds apart, and I thought ‘That can’t be right’,” McNab said in an interview at her Calgary home.

Four months ago, McNab was driving on 170 Street, and it’s alleged she exceeded the speed limit while crossing 100Avenue, where the first ticket was issued. A camera on Stony Plain Road issued her second ticket.

The cameras are located 250 metres apart.

McNab acknowledged she was driving her vehicle faster than the speed limit.

“I was speeding and yes, I will pay a ticket, but not two,” McNab said. “Is this really effective in stopping speeding?”

Gerry Shimko, Executive Director of the office of Traffic Safety said the speed cameras are effective.

“We’ve seen a reduction of 60 percent injuries over the last ten years,” Shimko said.

Shimko said there is signage in those areas warning drivers to slow down, and each year, only a handful of drivers are ticketed for speeding twice on the same road.

“Maybe about five to six times a year we might see this,” Shimko said.

Still, McNab said she believes she doesn’t deserve the two tickets.

“This isn’t right,” McNab said. “In my opinion this is a blatant cash cow.”

The Alberta Government is reviewing photo radar practices.

Transportation Minister Brian Mason said in a statement it: “Shouldn’t be used as a revenue generating tool…only to improve the safety of Alberta’s roads.”

“There has got to be reasonable limits set,” McNab said. “Can you put down cameras every ten feet? Of course not, but there’s nothing black and white in place.”

McNab hopes her case will be resolved in an Edmonton courtroom.

“We’ll try and find a judge who is impartial and can hopefully see that ten seconds is not a reasonable amount of time,” McNab said. “You’re being penalized twice for the same incident.”

With files from Shanelle Kaul