Dear Editor:
I live on Anderson Street North in Fergus and am continuously complaining to the police and council about speeding traffic and vehicles with defective mufflers or street racing modifications that usually means lots of noise.
This seems to have no effect whatsoever. The police said they put a speed monitor out and our councillor confirmed that something would be done about speeding and noise. The police then told me that according to the data they collected, there was no speeding problem. Given that the data collector seemed very close to a stop sign and may not have been the ideal position to collect reliable data and with no details of the speed threshold of the data collector, it would seem that their data is quite unreliable.
Despite this possibility, I am being told that the speeding and noise is all in my imagination, when in fact, you can hear some of these vehicles clear across town sometimes.
My conclusion is that I will need to get my fellow neighbors to get involved in this problem, if anything is to ever get done. I am asking as many people as possible to write in or complain to the police and council that it really is time something was done about noisy vehicles and speeding vehicles.
Maybe together we can get something done.
Malcolm McCulloch,
Fergus