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We needs answers on transportation
Re: Gotta Get Ready to Grow (Oct. 12).
Anyone remember the 2017 BRT plan including the Richmond Street Tunnel, all the public meetings and glossy brochures? Turned out no one at city hall realized provincial transportation grants came with specifications. All the hours spent on it were wasted and had to be redone in a modular format to provincial specs. So we ended up with a slap-happy plan thrown together to meet grant deadlines that still to this day does not include bus service to certain areas.
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City hall also should explain why the Transportation Mobility Management System (TMMS) is also a complete failure, especially upgrades letting “staff . . . adjust signal timings to improve traffic flow.” Driving from red light to red light is a London norm.
Beth McCracken, London
Clearly more detrimental
Mike Cassino’s letter, Spare students (Oct. 10), was right on the mark.
How London police could consider fining a Western student for drinking a beer in public when Londoners are forced to not only tolerate public use, but also pay for lethal drugs for addicts. One group hurts all of us, while the other will be contributing members of society, albeit with massive debt.
In the same publication, Jane Sims wrote about a gun and drug trafficker currently incarcerated and looking at a 10-year prison term. Excluding the gun trafficking, what’s the difference between the incarcerated and elected officials who make Londoners finance illicit drugs for addicts.
To be clear, I don’t condone either, but one is clearly more detrimental.
Sandra Barker, London
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Letter writer should study up
This letter is in regards to D. Watts’ letter, Ad nauseam (Oct. 12).
I totally disagree with Watts’s comment on how nauseating Pierre Poilievre is. Pierre Poilievre is a good man and it saddens me to see that Watts hasn’t tuned into parliamentary debates in order to see who is present and who is fighting for him and the people of this country.
If he saw that Pierre Poilievre was present more than Justin Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and Chrystia Freeland, he may change his perspective on the issue.
What’s more nauseating is seeing a tyrant like Justin Trudeau being given the freedom to do whatever he wants with no consequences. In my opinion, he is the most corrupt prime minister I have ever seen, only there for his paycheque and not for the well-being of the people of Canada.
Allowing Palestinians to protest and failing to charge them for burning the Canadian flag is a deep lack of respect towards Canada and what the Canadian flag stands for. His honouring a Ukrainian Nazi unit war veteran in Parliament a year ago shows his disrespect to every veteran who fought for Canada.
Maybe Watts should study up on the issue instead of uttering hate speech toward the eventual leader of this country.
Bryan Patterson, London
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