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Re: No idle talk on cars; City council considering tougher anti-idling laws to clean air, Sept. 16
When I read this article, it made me laugh. Just how they will enforce the bylaw is beyond me. Then I read the part where Angela Keller-Herzog states that when parents or guardians are dropping off or picking up the kids at school they should not be standing around with engines running, polluting the air. The kids are there inhaling all that pollution.
So, Ms. Keller-Herzog, you want a bylaw to charge the car owners but it’s OK for the bus that’s spewing more carbon than cars to stay idling? Have you ever been to a school lot? Buses and cars are parked side by side.
Then, on Sept. 20, I read “City committee OKs strict idling limits” and that it will be illegal to idle longer than one minute. It still has to be approved by the full city council, but we all know that’s just a formality.
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So this means when you’ve come to a red light you’ll be required to shut down. We all know traffic lights take longer than one minute to cycle. Or when you show up to pick up your kids at school, you need to shut down while you watch black smoke come out of school buses and city transit.
Now I remember why I moved away from Ottawa. City committees like this one and the municipal councillors spend more time on senseless bylaws than on finding ways to cut taxes or even fix infrastructure that is falling apart.
LARRY POULIN
DUNSFORD, ONT.
MANDATORY WEAPON SENTENCING
There is only one way to stop the use of restricted weapons in our country, and that is, in my opinion, mandatory sentencing of at least a year if you are found in possession of a restricted weapon.
Why doesn’t the government have the guts to make a law that will stand up in the Supreme Court?
They should also give the police powers to search when they observe a person known to them for serious crimes.
BOB MORRIS
OTTAWA
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