Taxi drivers protest: majoring in the minor

THE EDITOR, Sir:

THE MOST igniting part of the reasons for the taxis owners and drivers’ recent protest against the new traffic regulations it points to lack of literate understanding of a simple statement from the court, of payments made by a taxi operator which added up to $75,000 in fines.

On the other matter of charging the owners of motor vehicles for traffic offences in which vehicles are recorded by camera, it is very much in order for the owners of such vehicles to be required to pay, except that the law should include a clause that if it happens to be a driver other than the owners, that the owner has the right to reclaim his or her money from that offender.

SYSTEM’S RELIABILITY

I think arguments against this section of the law is a major in the minor. What we should be arguing about is how reliable this system will be, what happens when it malfunctions, and a vehicle is recorded. Will there be a reasonable length of time of trial and error testing before the system is officially brought into operation? How long after one’s vehicle is recorded for an offence will the owner be notified? How much time will be given for him to pay for such offence, since he might not have been the one who committed the offence, and since the fines are much bigger now?

How will it work if someone drives my car through the red light, kill someone, and run off?

My advice to us as drivers on the roads is: let us all obey the regulations and starve the Government’s purse.

JOHN D. KELLY