Editor:
In John Borrowman’s message from the mayor last week, he discussed the merits of photo radar in Canmore.
I would like to add that the ever-increasing traffic through the Bow Valley has put our wildlife more at risk of injury. There needs to be more signage on the Trans-Canada Highway between Dead Man’s Flats through to the Banff Park gate.
There is one sign in the Harvie Heights area. I feel that symbolism is more effective on highways than the written word. Pictures of an elk going through a windshield has a lasting impression.
Animals have rights and the volume of traffic now passing through the Valley requires increased measures to protect our wildlife. Photo radar along the highway would bring more revenue for RCMP patrols and signage.
Drivers will not slow down until they are forced to give up their license, vehicle and pay a hefty fine. Every time an animal gets killed in the park, or on Highway 93, we hear the same tiresome rhetoric that urges and recommends that drivers slow down and do the right thing.
Well, drivers do not always read the newspaper.
Eileen Patterson,
Banff
