Dear editor:

An interesting story re: “New 70 km/h signs rolling out on rural roads in NOTL next week” (Niagara Now, Aug. 21).

Why did NOTL council decide to do this?

Calculations:
100 accidents at 80 km/h
60 at 70 km/h = 40% less
36 at 60 km/h = 40% less
22 at 50 km/h = 50% less

Why stop at 70 kilometres an hour limits? What are the statistics that made council do this? How many died in NOTL auto accidents?

How long will it now take me to cross Niagara to the Shaw and dine in NOTL? Will I stop going? Will a Zoom performance be as exciting?

Perhaps NOTL council plans to install more municipal speed cameras as Port Colborne and Fort Erie have done?

Is their real goal to add speeding fines to town coffers? It’s automated — one kilometre per hour over created the same fine as 20 km/h over in Port Colborne.

For that matter, maybe NOTL council is farsighted — with the internet, why drive anywhere? Just Zoom and FaceTime.

Let Amazon, et al. deliver everything we need (at higher speeds as the only vehicles on the road).

If we stop driving and flying, climates will cool everywhere. Climatologists learned of lower temperatures from no jetplane contrails in the week after 9/11, when planes were grounded across North America.

Lorne White
Port Colborne