The Burnaby RCMP’s traffic enforcement branch has been doing some amazing work lately.
The NOW has featured the fruits of some of these efforts, which include railway crossing enforcement, construction and school zone enforcement, and impaired driving enforcement.
I’m all for these efforts.
But on Monday, RCMP officers were doing “high visibility pedestrian” enforcement in the Metrotown area.
In a two-hour period 10 pedestrians were ticketed for jaywalking and four were given verbal warnings, said Burnaby RCMP.
Sure, I get that people should be using the proper crossings. They are warning that with the darker mornings and evenings, the number of drivers hitting pedestrians spike at this time of year.
But police resources are scare. Spending time ticketing pedestrians feels like a bit of a waste. Drivers cause far more problems than cyclists and pedestrians, so I’d rather police resources were spent nailing reckless drivers than pedestrians doing something they shouldn’t be doing.
It’s not a big deal, but there are too many drivers putting lives at risk compared with pedestrians.
Let’s go after the drivers, please.
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