Editor: Recently, the Chatham-Kent Police Service were asking people to complete a survey for feedback about what we feel should be priorities and key matters important to the people of Chatham-Kent. Two of my main concerns were the ongoing control of the encampment saga and traffic control and speeding in this city.
I see the city has hired by-law officers for the encampment, Monday to Friday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. I am sure we are footing this bill. Great!
Hopefully the CKPS is doing the weekend shift?
In the Oct. 9 issue of The Chatham Voice, a picture of a fire burning in the encampment close to trees appeared. Lo and behold on the next page, a restoration company was cleaning up after it. No fire regulations for these people like the rest of us tax-paying citizens? Never mind the expenses being paid for fire trucks being sent out. (Once again us footing the bill.)
The people in neighborhoods close to this encampment are paying property taxes plus paying for their neighborhood destruction.
As for traffic in this town? What is happening here? It’s okay to go 80 to 90 km/h on city streets? Ridiculous.
How often do you see a car pulled over by police or a speed trap set up? I don’t think there is enough police presence on roads.
Speeding in this city is insane. Cars, trucks, motorcycles.
And tailgating.
St. Clair Street…don’t even get me started on that.
I live on Michener Road. The speeding is crazy. People probably going 70 to 80 km/h in a 50 km/h zone that has a crosswalk to a school and a park. A few speed bumps would slow down these morons. I have seen it been done in London. Also frequent police presence.
Let’s hope it doesn’t take something serious happening to get things done.
So, back to the survey. Hopefully people’s opinions are going to count and we get this city back on track.
Deb Warnock
Chatham
I think Chatham can is spending too much money. We don’t need a new library and we don’t need a new City Hall. There is nothing wrong with them. Putting some money into it, they don’t have to totally restore the building. It’s not in that bad a shape. They should not be putting everything in the Sears mall. All that is doing is taking business away from store owners that could be in there, like it used to be very vibrant and selling everything from phones to jewelry. Stores, bookstores, restaurants, shoes, clothing and all other sorts of things would them changing everything. And spending so much money that is unnecessary.
As for the homeless some of them people are good. Some of them people lost everything during COVID. Their jobs or houses their apartments that they rented. And that’s where they are. Now, a lot of them homeless people in Chatham Kent aren’t even from Chatham. Kent.