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Prioritize traffic
Regarding the article Think London traffic’s getting worse? You’re not wrong (Nov. 15)
Turns out London’s a world-class city for traffic congestion.
Do councillors and city staff really require data to confirm London’s traffic problems have grown?
Anyone driving in London is aware it takes longer than ever to get from one point to another, largely due to the city’s failure to keep up with population growth. Instead of increasing lanes of traffic on main arterial roads to accommodate this growth, city council has aggravated traffic congestion by eliminating traffic lanes to accommodate rarely used bicycle lanes.
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How can anyone logically think removing two lanes of traffic from a street will not have a negative effect on traffic flow?
John Lisowski, London
Essential service
Countless Canadians, among them the elderly and unwell, depend on their monthly benefit cheques to pay for rent, groceries and medical care. How are they to cope when these desperately needed funds are caught up in the backlog caused by the postal workers’ strike? The mail is an essential service on which so many are dependent.
Strike action by the few should not be allowed to critically impact the many.
Robert Kent, Ingersoll
Don’t help them
Regarding the article Education minister scolds school boards for extravagance (Nov. 16) .
I guess there is only one thing left for parents to do.
Refuse any payments for school supplies, sports, fundraising, read-a-thons, chocolate bar sales, and other money-making schemes.
Refuse any volunteering for special interest days, hotdog day, chaperoning dances or classroom volunteering.
School boards have proven they are untrustworthy so they can cut their own salaries and sink or swim on their own.
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Rob McIver, Red Deer, Alta.
Timing offensive
Why would you publish the article ‘We don’t want to know about abused men’ (Nov. 9) during the month-long public awareness drive to spotlight men’s violence against women?
You have 11 other months of the year to publish that article and yet you chose to run it in the one month dedicated to the Shine The Light on Women Abuse campaign.
Are the editor and editor-in-chief that insensitive, or worse, misogynistic? Shame on you!
Colleen Clark, London
Wrong message
Regarding the article ‘A-OK… ketchup is no crime‘ (Nov. 13)
Why would you put a picture of Tarek Loubani on the front page? Why are you promoting this kind of behaviour?
Maybe I should come to London and spread ketchup on your office door.
I hope Western University is proud of this associate professor. He is behaving like a spoiled child.
Lloyd Harris, Sarnia
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