Dear Editor:
Re: Parents, get a grip – you are failing your kids, Letter to the editor, the Record, Oct. 26.
As someone who lives near an elementary school in New Westminster, I second Shelley Fralic’s emotion about the traffic commotion taking place during drop-off and pickup hours.
The simplest solution would be to ramp up enforcement, especially now when it’s getting darker earlier with each passing day.
I’m sure the lady who parks in the middle of the street and gets out of her vehicle to escort her daughter to class would cease and desist if she came back and found a $100 ticket on her windshield. Ironic, too, when you consider how ruthless parking enforcement personnel are in other parts of the city; you’d think elementary schools would be a priority.
The same appeal could be made to the New Westminster Police Department to deal with speed issues.
Many are the days when vehicles, commercial and otherwise, rip by Tweedsmuir in the West End like they’re trying out for the pole position at the Indy 500.
If the police have time to bust pot shops on the eve of legalization, surely there’s time to flag a guy who could potentially kill an innocent child.
The sad thing is that if a child is injured, or worse, there will be no end of hand wringing and descriptions of it as a tragedy.
It wouldn’t be. It would be the result of a failure of the vested authorities to have done the right thing to prevent it from happening in the first place.
Ian MacNeill, New Westminster
