Reader Response Forum
27/11/2009 05:27
Ticketing Carries On With Council’s Blessing
A letter in
Wednesday’s Gazette entitled “Bus lane patrol
seems excessive”, points out:
“I’m writing to inform parents who pick up their children at Sir George Simpson school that they will receive a $60 parking ticket if they stop in a certain stretch of pavement in front of the school.
While waiting to pick up my daughter, the bylaw officer drove up, exited his car and proceeded to tell a mother in a car ahead of me, as well as myself, to stay where we were as he was going to issue both of us a ticket for stopping there. Not parking, stopping. He then proceeded to write us both tickets for simply being there waiting for our children. This is a bus lane, yes I agree, but it was also 20 minutes after all buses had left for the afternoon, not during drop off or pickup.”
SINC SAYS:
Here is yet another shining example of an out of control wannabe cop who could easily have given a warning to the man and woman involved in the incident.
Instead, and driven by greed to keep his job, he becomes an agent of city administration and issues two totally unnecessary tickets.
I wrote the mayor about this type of incident taking place in my own bloody driveway and got a predictable reaction. He “copied all of council” with my letter.
When will these
nincompoops begin to realize just how bad it
looks when they publicly state, that it’s all
about the money? That is the single message
that has been coming out of city hall by the
mayor, as the papers are full of his comments
on that front.
Not only are we the highest taxed municipality in the nation, but now we have to be subjected to a bunch of clowns raiding our wallets for the tiniest of infractions?
This council and administration know what the right thing to do is, yet they avoid it. Just lay off the two extra bylaw officers they hired on a recommendation by administration that they would “pay for themselves”.
It’s an experiment gone wrong, driven by greed and it should be fixed immediately. Toss the pair of wannabe cops out on their ass. They’ve been acting like one anyway.
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