Dear editor:

I just finished reading your article on traffic cameras being vandalized in NOTL for a second time (“Down it goes, again: Traffic camera beside Crossroads vandalized a second time,” June 19).

It’s hard to feel any sympathy for the region when it comes to this issue.

Regardless, they are a cash grab! Plain and simple.

As someone who was once issued a ticket from one of these cameras on York Road in NOTL, it’s hard to feel bad that these were vandalized. I’m not advocating for destruction of property. I’m just saying I won’t lose any sleep over this.

Queue the angry bootlickers who will argue: If you don’t like speeding tickets, then don’t speed! Look, we’re all humans and we make mistakes from time to time.

But if your argument is that it’s for safety reasons, I have one simple question for you: Why not install several speed bumps to prevent any vehicle from building up a significant amount of speed in school zones and/or heavily populated areas?

Oh, that’s right. They don’t generate income. Nice try, though.

Just another example of the rich getting richer & the poor getting poorer. And they wonder why food bank lineups are getting longer each year.

Yousaf Shaikh
Glendale