Speed cameras make roads safer

To the editor:

Recently, a writer suggested putting cameras on all of our highways and interstates to bring in money instead of a gas tax.

I think it should be nationwide in all states to keep the playing field even. All the roads would be safer. These cameras would pay for themselves in a blink of an eye. Also, they would create jobs for someone to write the daily citations that would be pouring in. We could alternate different ones to be active so regular drivers couldn't form a pattern of speeding and driving the limit.

Jobs would be created to put in and maintain the cameras. Enough money would come in to cover all of this and fix the roads, enough maybe to get rid of the gas tax. The rest of the country should take note of what our city has done with a few cameras in making Interstate 380 safer.

No one should complain if they drive the speed limit and if all states did it, we all would benefit and drivers wouldn't go around Iowa to avoid the cameras. Nothing is secret anymore with cameras and phones and computers everywhere, so let's put technology to a good use and make money to benefit us by safer and new roads and more jobs and less taxes.

Kaye E. Haslam

Cedar Rapids