Speed checking on freeway is useless
Right this minute (10:30am) I was supposed to be on my way to Manning Park for the long weekend (so don’t expect any posts after this for a few days) but apparently some truck caught on fire on Highway 1 just east of 232 St. I am waiting for a few friends to come east but they are caught up in traffic. Apparently because of this, traffic is gummed up all the way to Mt. Lehman Road.
So I am listening to the 730AM traffic channel (which I think is a brilliant service for route planning) and hear that police are monitoring around the Whatcom Road exit for speeders!
I would just like to take this point to comment that catching people speeding on the freeway is an absolutely useless activity – especially on Canada Day weekend when the priority is to get the traffic off the roads, and not to keep it on the roads by enforcing our artificially low speed limits. Why are we spending valuable police resources on an activity (making sure people don’t go over 110km/h in a 100km/h zone) that will have zero future preventative power?
I’m sure it has absolutely nothing to do with police forces across the province making money every time fines are collected from tickets and everything to do with public safety.
Have a good long weekend. I’ll be around here somewhere.