“There’s not a really big safety & fatalities risk based on a noisy muffler or a loud exhaust pipe, or screeching your tires” “We have bigger things out there to deal with rather than wasting our tax dollars on noise cameras” “Politicians always tell the truth, and nothing but the truth! Receipts! where are these […]
The province is increasing the fine for the towing and storage of impounded vehicles. The new penalties coming into effect today. Joining us now is former New West and West Vancouver traffic cop, Grant Gottgetreu. “…there’s always a spike in fatals in the summer months, but this was unprecedented… these all need to be analyzed
“I knew it would eventually catch up, what I’ve been seeing in the last 10-15 years, there’s an increase in traffic obviously and we just can’t handle it in the Lower Mainland.” “The other thing is, there has been a marked decrease in traffic enforcement. Other than the Vancouver Police, they’ve maintained a 40 person
“Well it’s certainly an anomaly, it’s a blip on the radar if you will, for lack of a better term, before there’s a knee jerk reaction, what we have to do is wait to hear what those casual factors for all these collisions” “There has been a marked decrease in traffic enforcement by the RCMP
“Speeding didn’t necessarily cause the most crashes… For me it was at intersections and people just not paying attention, or trying to run the light…” “Anyone who gets a drivers licence in BC should go through some kind of training. If the government was serious about taking care of the problems we have with commercial
