Ka-ching: It’s photo radar

Re: “Minister cuts city out of photo-radar picture” (Gazette, Feb. 23).

Does anyone, anywhere, actually believe that redlight and speed cameras are about anything except the money?

Over the past 40 years, traffic fatalities have dropped substantially, even as the number of drivers and cars on the road have more than tripled.

The fact that Montreal Mayor Gérald Tremblay says he won’t accept additional traffic cameras unless the city gets the revenue is a very clear message that money is the driving force.

It isn’t as if tickets generated by cameras generate points on licences. It isn’t as if photo radar are employed only during peak traffic times – so if someone were to travel down the Ville Marie at 100 km/h at 2 a.m. when there’s no one else around (noting that it’s a 70-km/h zone, but the road is engineered to be safe at 120 km/h) is there are danger whatsoever? Of

course not.it is only about the money.

Bram Frank Dollard des Ormeaux

All together now: Ka- ching! Ka-ching! André Bordeleau Pointe Claire

» Mayor Gérald Trem- blay opened a can of worms when he requested Quebec install a lot more photoradar machines on the island of Montreal and the city receive the revenue.

Quebec should post on all signs the fine followed by the speed at which a ticket will be issued (i.e. 50 km/h – $58) to serve as constant reminders for motorists to slow down. Michael Shafter Montreal