Letters to the editor

I think there's a real problem with people milking the system for fictitious injury claims. My daughter was the victim of such a claim.

A minor fender bender at walking speeds that, after someone's dad visited the accident scene, resulted in a bogus claim for an injured knee to the tune of $20,000.

So when the time came for the 'injured party' to tell ICBC their side of the story regarding the accident, said injured party did not attend.

Instead, her parents, who were not involved in the collision, attended the meeting and not because their child was unable to attend. It was "within their rights" you see.

So at once my daughters premiums go through the roof to the point that she can no longer drive.

I have also heard from more than one individual who indicated that they had received fairly large settlements for injuries they never sustained. And they thought they were pretty clever for having duped the system. How does that work?

So, I wave my finger at both parties. Those that would take advantage of the system and the system itself for being so flawed as to allow this to happen over and over. No wonder rates are as high as they are, what with everyone cheating the system.

Jeff Watson

Seems all they are concerned about are the main arteries. Here in Winfield, trucks were plowing bare roads yesterday and the sparks were flying off the blades, go figure.

When they sand nowadays, their sanders lay down a thin strip of sand right down the middle of the road. Are we to drive on the white line for traction?

When highways was run by the government, they had tailgate sanders which laid sand across the whole lane and the same with salt. I guess they don't want to clean up much sand in the spring because that costs money.

Our maintenance yard used to have 8 or more trucks which is down to 5 now and a little truck with a small box and front plow. The roads are not maintained well at all anymore.

Greg Brosnikoff

If the mayor shuts down bus route 2 and 9, we seniors may as well lay down and die. You've taken away our driver's licenses, now you are going to take away our senior shuttle bus.

Are you not aware that you are destroying our quality of life?

These buses are a life line to us and are imperative to the many disabled. The drivers of these buses enable us to meet our friends, they not only help us on and off the buses, but for some, they may be the only cheerful voice they hear all day.

Mr. Mayor, I challenge you to ride these buses and talk to the people riding them, and hope and pray that one day, you, or a member of your family will be in need of these services. Lets hope they will still be around.

Susan Hunter

Recently, I saw three members working a covert radar speed trap on Lakeshore Drive in lower Mission, near the Eldorado. That stretch of road is a section where it is most difficult to speed even if one wanted to.

It is safe to make the statement that the public is also frustrated with limited RCMP resources, and wonder at the logic of employing three members at a time in catching offenders of petty offences such as the aforementioned.

The public sentiment is, and the optics are, that the RCMP should re-allocate their energy and efforts.

Less time on traffic and more time on Crime. In case you're wondering, I drove through the radar trap doing the speed limit without incident.

Bruce Dougall

I have paid well over $60,000 in today's money in insurance premiums for all those years of driving. Explain to me again please your rationale why I should be having to pay yet again, more money.

Does not part of you agree that I have indeed proved myself to ICBC and therefore perhaps should actually be getting free insurance at this point?

Why am I paying for the person in Surrey who claims an I-pad or stereo having been stolen from his car?

Gordon R. Boothe