LETTER

Gatineau’s “cash cows”

The Gatineau Police department just got back to me regarding my request for information. In a one-year period, 1,382 speeding tickets were issued along Boul. Alexandre-Tache (Hull). The total revenue generated by these speeding tickets for the City in this one-year period is $184,618 – over $500 a day is generated on this one street alone? Obviously officers hiding in the shadows,  with  their unmarked cars and radar guns mean a Big Pay Day for the City of Gatineau on this particular street. 

The school zone should be marked better with larger, more prominent signs and larger flashing lights – but why would the City want to jeopardize this cash cow, a street of gold?  The street with the most speeding tickets issued in the City, between January 2017 and 2018, is Boulevard des Allumettieres, another cash cow. 

I will bring these facts up while in court fighting my unjust speeding ticket, a 60k in a 30k, $280 fine -- that’s a half day of work for the Boulevard Tache. 

Peter A. Ferguson

Gatineau

(See the French article on page 10 on Gatineau’s 2019 budget deliberations - which include provisions for more, and more obvious, signage in school zones.)