Re: "Online poll stirs rainbow crosswalk conflict" (Gazette, May 12).
Roads to nowhere, yellow crosswalks, multi-colour crosswalks and intersection dividers, traffic calming devices that don’t work and the list goes on. Now rainbow crosswalks. Who is running the ship?
Governments are to provide roads, signs, manage parks, and other citizen services, not bend to the whims of every special interest group they can think of. I have lived in and around St. Albert for over 40 years and have not seen an outpouring of unnecessary expenditures as has happened in the last five to 10 years.
Exercise some control. Focus on things that are needs. Let special interest groups do their own funding. We pay way too much in taxes now. We cannot be revenue sources for all things and every whim. What we need is responsible politicians that know the difference between real justified needs and unjustified wants. If someone wants rainbow crosswalks, let them raise the funding with no cost to the taxpayers.
Randy Ellis, St. Albert
