‘Speed tax’ cameras
Dear Editor:
RE: Drivers evading speed cameras a concern for Fergus, Drayton residents, July 4.
Thank you to the Advertiser for including an online photo of the bunch of curmudgeons wringing their hands in delight of the millions they’re making off this “speed tax.”
It’s the perfect example of government overreach, greed, covert dealings and hypocrisy rolled into one.
These champions of the nanny state are too wrapped up in their own greed to realize the incredible and obvious hypocrisy in the fact that they’re basically whining for increased policing on back streets rather than put increased policing on the main thoroughfares which would actually slow traffic and would have made things safer in the first place.
A cruiser is far more effective in slowing down traffic than an innocuous camera.
They seemingly would rather put school kids and homeowners at risk on the side streets than give up the income from their precious tax cameras – priorities I guess.
Peter Beilke,
Wellington North
