Calgary Sun Letters to the Editor for Friday, June 21, 2024

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Slow for construction

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Just wondering why there are so few drivers who actually slow down to 80 km/h for the construction at the north end of Deerfoot Trail. I go through there twice a day at 80 km/h and everyone is just flying by me. It’s a construction zone!

James Brooks

(Our next letter writer may have a way to curb this dangerous behaviour.)

Keep roads safer

Photo radar is not a “cash cow”.  It is the most efficient and effective way of controlling traffic flow.

Drivers who exceed the speed limits, the law, pay the price. It is unconscionable that the Premier is considering changes to this mode of law enforcement. The Premier supporting law breakers is not surprising, but it is quite misguided.

Larry Samcoe

(The lovely yellow billboards the photo radar vehicles now have already makes it less effective.)

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Healthy newspapers hold government to account

Canadians need answers regarding the names of MPs who aided foreign powers. The value of newspapers and their columnists is apparent as they inform readers about a serious issue like the above, while asking for transparency from our government. Today democracies need healthy newspapers to counteract open-face lies from social media outlets and their editorials that inform us about serious issues as our politicians avoid divulging these potential traitor’s names’. Sadly it’s another government coverup.

Peter J. Middlemore Sr.

(We couldn’t agree more.)

Just wondering

So if an oil company’s pipeline blew and no inspection records could be found for decades previous, what might the ramifications be for said company? Just a hypothetical question, completely unrelated to anything else pipeline-related in the news.

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R. Davis

(Aside from the fact that oil pipelines pour a very different substance when they break, you have a very solid point.)

Get the water flowing

I think that the City is not only in a panic rush to get water flowing through the damaged feedermain by the start of Stampede, but to also circle the wagons. The more that this fiasco is scrutinized, the more it becomes apparent that this is not only a story of a major Canadian city potentially going dry, but a story of gross neglect, incompetence and coverup by those who were entrusted to keep our taps flowing. And the stink is becoming unbearable.

Bob Grundie

(There are so many good reasons council would like this issue to go away.)

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