MLAs Peter Milobar and Andrew Mercier square off in a BC budget debate! BC’s latest budget is highlighting our housing struggles. Are Vancouver drivers the worst in Canada when it comes to snow? “Grant, over your many years as a traffic police officer, I’m sure you saw a lot of fender benders in the snow. […]
“Would income-based traffic fines be an effective solution to tackling driving offences?” “The police aren’t going to know roadside what your income is, unless suddenly they have access to their computers, to your annual tax return from the year before…If the fines were meant to be a deterrent, there would still be no points for
Grant Gottgetreu, Former traffic cop in New West and West Vancouver, now a forensic criminal and traffic consultant at Forensictrafficpro.com discusses whether or not traffic could have still been allowed to move across the Alex Fraser Bridge during a crisis situation earlier this week. “In a situation like this – I’m going to assume you’ve
“The motorist in this particular case did everything right… They were signalled to pull over and they pulled over. When they recognized that something was wrong they left and they called 911…”
Do police need to step up their public information campaigns, be more visible? “As long as people have freewill, they’re going to continue to speed, use their cellphones, drink and drive… Police do the best job they can – no amount of education is going to irradicate it.”
