Dear Editor:
RE: Storybrook subdivision residents concerned about speeding drivers, Oct. 31.
Lindsay Duncan is right on the mark about the Storybrook speeders and you don’t need a radar gun to know it.
Me and my family have been living on a main thoroughfare by the Storybrook community – Rea Drive – for four years and continuously see numerous drivers speeding by our home.
Sara Fraser, who wrote in her letter (‘Neglectful,’ Nov. 7) that she has “never seen anyone driving at such overly exaggerated speeds” must live on a cul-de-sac where the only traffic would come from those living there. That’s the only logical explanation we can think of that wouldn’t discredit her.
I often work nights remotely, and even behind closed windows in the early morning hours have heard loud racetrack-like engine sounds roaring up and down the street(s). And it’s not restricted to Storybrook alone. A vehicle passed us on Sideroad 18 heading toward Farley Road. We’re trying not to inch too far past the signed 40km/h, and they were easily doing 80km/h, just as Duncan described.
People speed for different reasons. We are all at different points in our lives. And it seems we all aren’t paying much attention to anything out there. If we were only more mindful of how we affect others around us with what we are doing … or maybe – if we only cared about how we affect those around us.
Loreli Landry,
Fergus