Low limits are necessary

I am writing in reference to your editorial about transportation policies (Citizen, June 13). For the most part you present a lucid and fair assessment of some of the pitfalls of transportation policies, or lack thereof, in Ontario.

One comment you made in closing ... "and in spots like rural Caledon it can be as low as 40 km/h thanks to politicians who curry favour with residents who object to the fact a formerly gravel road has a smooth asphalt surface that attracts commuters." When I read that comment about former gravel roads that are now commuter routes, I checked to see if I was reading an Orangeville paper. It sounded like something a commuter would write, a selfish commuter that is. The same kind who does 20 over the limit and never pays taxes on the Caledon back roads they commute to work on.

I live beside one of those gravel roads that got paved and the speed limit is 60-kh and with good reason. Most drivers speed and the road bed wasn't designed to be a freeway. Children are being picked up to go to school; farmers are driving their tractors, and folks are riding their horses on this paved rural road.

For the sake of public safety and responsible government, Caledon politicians and the staff at the Town of Caledon, have wisely implemented fair and sane speed limits on Caledon's roadways. I support their efforts 100% and so should you.

Rick Walsh