- May 4, 2024
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Put red light cameras on the ballot
Dear Editor:
For the last 10 years, my wife Peg and I have been taking care of the elderly. We take them to the hospital, doctor, shopping, etc.
In 50 years, I have never got a traffic ticket. I had one fender bender in Palm Coast.
At 12:39 p.m. Jan. 23, the camera at westbound Palm Coast Parkway Northeast and Florida Park Drive North caught me rolling five miles per hour through the red light. The fine was $158. I paid. This is outrageous.
I say this to the people of Palm Coast: Let's put it on the ballot. Vote on it. Let us set the fines.
I say all traffic violations will be $10.
Who set the fines?
Hilary Chester
Palm Coast
Editor’s Note: The fee of $158 is mandated by the state of Florida.
Utility rates out of control; focus on desalination
Dear Editor:
All but one of our city councilmen, including our Mr. Landon, approved the out-of-control utility rate increases. Not one of these people has had any experience with utility services and yet they approved something they knew nothing about.
We have city councilmen who do not have the guts to step on our city manager’s toes, and it is time to start replacing them with people who will listen to what the city residents want.
If I were one of the city councilmen sitting in on all the rate increase meetings, I would not cast an approving vote.
Our engineers have made our 30-year-old domestic water, sanitary waste and storm systems in need of a complete replacement.
Our Florida potable well-water table is lowering every year, and if our domestic water engineers take their heads out of the sand, they would consider using sea water in lieu of wells. Convert salt water into freshwater (drinking water), by means of a seawater desalination plant.
Walter Albano
Palm Coast
Bus driver: Drivers from the north are rude
Dear Editor:
Regarding Ms. Valerie Ottley’s letter to the Palm Coast Observer last month: I’ve been living in Palm Coast, since before schools, neighborhoods, main roads and bridges were ever built. I drove a Flagler County Transportation bus before I retired. I can tell Ms. Ottley about the northerners’ driving habits. They don’t know the meaning of right of way while making a turn on red light, they don’t use signals, cut vehicles off in a New York minute. Instead of waving hello, the give you the middle finger, even when they are in the wrong.
Frank Lago
Palm Coast
Lots to do in Palm Coast, thanks to city planners
Dear Editor:
I would like to commend the town fathers for their foresight to enhance the city. When I think about Palm Coast in the early 2000s, it was a city of houses and roads. We now have wonderful bike and walking paths and the addition of a wonderful facility at Waterfront Park.
Besides that, they spent the money to enable the town residents to enjoy municipal golf at Palm Harbor Golf Course, which enhanced the surrounding neighborhood, which previously looked at an abandoned golf property.
We now have multiple sports and recreation for the industry we want to attract instead of the future employees only being able to sit home and watch TV!
Alice Manthey
Palm Coast
