Editor:
Re: Plenty of leadfoots on highway for Heritage weekend (RMO, Aug. 7).
Bow Valley residents, at frequent intervals, read about the latest wildlife casualties on their high(and rail)ways.
Obviously, many leadfoots do not give a hoot about the frequent pleas to ease up on their throttle. Why should they be bothered about it? There is, after all, little chance for them to get caught and consequently (some of them) end up moving down our supposedly precious and protected wildlife.
Isn’t it embarrassing, Bow Valley residents, that Canmore landowners from Scotland feel urgently compelled to ask for the installation of automotive traffic cameras?
It is glaringly obvious, at least to me, that the only meaningful alternative (and addition) to our very costly and, let’s face it, rather ineffective mobile traffic/law enforcement actions (or inactions) are the above-mentioned traffic cameras – partly for them self-paying and as highly effective law enforcement tools.
Question to our provincial and federal lawmakers: Why is the above not even considered and/or discussed? Is there possibly some kind of right wing political road block?
Note: most of the in-flooding, money spending, national park visitors (the ones our Parks officials are so craving) do not want to see wildlife corpses on our highways. They want to see live wildlife in their viewfinders.
The continuing slaughter of wildlife on our park highways could also put a dent into the romantic picture many overseas visitors still have of our “pristine” national parks, compelling them to steer clear and spending their money somewhere else.
Why travel to the Canadian Rockies if you can visit other beautiful mountain scapes much closer to home, thereby spending less money and having the same tame non-wilderness experience?
Gian-Duri Giger,
Canmore
