R.W. Gardner’s letter in the ADN Dec. 14 urged authorities to install speed cameras at intersections, which could also catch red-light runners. I agree with him.
Unfortunately, Anchorage residents voted in 1997 to forbid all types of speed cameras everywhere in town. There had been a huge backlash over putting cameras in school zones, perhaps the most critical spots of all.
It is too bad that Anchorage’s “ornery, anti-government” residents (words of Charles Wohlforth’s headline writer) have gone so far as to forbid protection of our very lives.
— Vivian Mendenhall
Anchorage
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