Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Crosswalks....

The crosswalk issue is one that isn't going away anytime soon.

We had Tina Chaulk on the show today. She's the mother of Mary-Beth, who died last year after being hit in a crosswalk in Dartmouth. It kind of makes you realize how insignifcant your problems are when you think about what she has gone through, and what the parents of Kaitlyn Murray-Selinger's parents are going through. I can tell you, Tina brought a lot of quiet strength into the studio and we so appreciated her coming in. She came with a very intelligent 17-year old girl named Fern and both of them provided some amazing insights and a lot of what's lacking around these here parts - COMMON SENSE!!!

There are a couple things Hotline listeners can do to press the issue. One of our listeners Pat has a petition going around. Give me a call tomorrow and I can give you her number. Also, the infamous Bruce Devenne has a new website: www.betweenvotes.com. It's not necessarily for the crosswalk issue per se, but it's very handy to get phone numbers, address etc.

People have been calling me with so many suggestions and it's been great. I think the best thing to do though, would be to call your city councillor with those suggestions. It's budget time, so now is your chance!! They are paid to serve US, so let's get them to do just that.

Global was in filming the Tina Chaulk hour, so if you want to get your television fix of the Rickster, tune in tonight!

It wasn't all serious today on the show. Earlier Ben called. Ben cracks me up. I know, people think he's, well a little wacky, but the banter between he and Rick is hysterical. Today he dropped "The DeVenne Code" and well, it was tres drole.

Tomorrow, it's an all open show, so I can't wait to hear what you have to say!

Thanks for listening!

Amber
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, listening to Ben from PEI and
"The Rickster's" banter is tres drole most everytime Ben from PEI calls Hotline. :)

April 5, 2007 at 10:16 a.m.
Normj said...

No matter what anyone says, cars are bigger then pedestrians and I may get a ticket but someone is still injured or killed. Instead of picking on seniors and crosswalks, how's about each and every time a ticket is issued for a DMV infraction, that an order to take a complete Drivers Exam (written and driving)was given (to be taken within 5 to 10 days of the infraction)at the drivers expense, do ya think maybe the mnessage would get through?? Maybe the inconvenience would make the light come on huh??

Norm

April 5, 2007 at 4:23 p.m.
Anonymous said...

I could've sworn that when I took Drivers Ed. (and I'm pretty sure there's just some general idea floating around my whole life), I was informed that the driver of a vehicle must remain in control of the vehicle AT ALL TIMES. If you're mowing down people at cross-walks, that doesn't sound like there's a lot of control going on there. Fines don't do anything to bad drivers. Bad drivers not having liscences fixes that, plain and simple. And who's blaming old people when there's teens with no pants driving SUV's?

All thse incidents surrounding poor driving and the people being killed/injured/affected by it is alarming. Mistakes can be made, no doubt, but not recognizing when you're too old, too high, too drunk, too inexperienced to drive aren't mistakes. That's called irresponsibility, and there's no room for that behind the wheels of lumbering hunks of steel.

April 11, 2007 at 8:26 a.m.

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