Dear Editor:
RE: Taxes to rise 7.4% in Centre Wellington, Dec. 21.
I see by the paper, taxes are rising 7.4%. I must comment on the waste of taxes spent on the roads that are a waste of time, including:
– islands put on Beatty Line, St. Andrew Street East, to control speed (which have NO affect on speed);
– the huge cost of a roundabout on Beatty Line that, in my opinion, was not needed on a back road; and
– the cost of placing and removing speed signs drilled into the road on most the roads in town, that do not slow anyone down.
I live on Sideroad 19. The speed limit here is set for 40km/h; most people speed excessively on this road, appearing to go 60 to 80km/h.
Police will not enforce the speed limit. I have called numerous times to no avail.
Between the signs, islands and roundabout, this must have cost thousands of dollars, that have produced no results, slowing speeds on our roads. Maybe not wasting taxpayers’ taxes on these would have maybe cost us less in taxes in 2024!
Amazing how elected people like to spend other people’s money, without giving it a second thought.
Dave Bittorf,
Centre Wellington