Editor:
The City of Burnaby wasted time and taxpayers’ money by extending the hours in local school speed zones.
School ends around 3 p.m. and then after all the kids are gone the area is empty of children crossing the road. What is the point of having the speed limit be 30 km/h until 10 p.m. when the kids left the area hours before then?
I’ve driven through these school zones at night and there are literally no people around ever. During the day, I get it because many parents are terrible drivers. But at night, it’s a waste.
The whole thing felt like a solution in search of a problem.
I’m not advocating people racing past a school even at night, but having to slow down to 30 km/h at 9 o’clock at night is a pointless joke.
Is this some scam in which the city raises money by having cops hide out just so they can ticket someone going a reasonable speed at 10 o’clock at night?
And that brings up another point. The cops don’t have the time or resources to monitor these school zones so what is the point anyways? It felt performative. The problem is that when people are forced to go that slow so late at night for no reason then they will inevitably speed up too much after they leave the school zone.
That’s the reality of how drivers think.
Do city workers really not have anything else better to do?
R. Jackson, Burnaby
