Wednesday letters: lack of night speed control

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I hope I don’t reveal any Edmonton Police Service traffic control secrets, but it appears that EPS control of traffic speed ends every day at dusk.

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I live in the Oliver area right off Jasper Avenue. I also travel and frequently visit the Whyte Avenue district. Most days after sunset, the highways (primarily Jasper and Whyte avenues) turn into what sounds like Castrol Speedway. Cars and motorcycles run and roar on these roads and over bridges from sunset to the early hours of the morning. It’s a stoplight-to-stoplight race of these hot cars and motorcycles on a quest to see who’s faster and louder. I listen to them for blocks as the roar and groan of their engines fade into the night.

I can’t help but think “where are the police?” Are they deaf, asleep, or just can’t match the speed of these vehicles?

Dave Wolkowski, Edmonton

Albertans Must Take Personal Responsibility

Albertans are independence-loving members of society, entrepreneurs, workers, and taxpayers. Albertans voted in UCP and the party believes in greater personal responsibility and less government interference.

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COVID shows up within our borders, and suddenly 20 percent of you decide you don’t like all this personal responsibility. Now you want Kenney to constantly interfere to a greater degree? You cannot have both. Stop blaming Kenney.

God help us if we are ever at war and you are asked to follow guidelines and restrictions to help ensure the health, safety and lives of your fellow Albertans. I wonder, are you the person who would still be whining “my freedoms are being infringed” when it’s bullets instead of a needle piercing your skin? Put on your big girl-big boy pants and get vaccinated.

Frances Marion, Mayerthorpe

Can we do better for the fifth wave?

I’m mad as hell and I won’t take it anymore. I am angry at our Prime Minister for putting his political delusions on the lives of Albertans. I am angry at Medical Director Hinshaw for not standing up to her political teachers. I am angry at the anti-vaccines who through their stubborn ignorance are killing Albertans. I’m mad at Alberta Health Services for restrictions that no one can understand, and I’m mad at the Edmonton Journal for not publishing the Alberta case chart daily.

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How can we screw up something that should be easy to understand? Maybe when we have the fifth wave we can do a better job.

Don Davidson, Edmonton

Why not talk about the third dose of the vaccine?

The United States is seriously discussing the third (booster) vaccine for people over 65 or immunosuppressed, and Israel, for example, is providing them as standard. Why is this important step apparently not even talked about?

Morrris Maduro, Edmonton

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