Cameras causing driving that’s too slow?

In a Nov. 22 Gazette article, columnist Dave Rasdal writes that “motorists are driving too slow in Cedar Rapids.” This is a complete about face from his former statements, which always seemed to criticize drivers who don't drive with one foot on the brake pedal.

If memory serves me correctly, wasn't it Dave who was one of the original advocates of the speed cameras, which now cause lawbreaking criminals to drive too slowly for him?

Please permit me to gratefully remember police officers who didn't monitor cameras. They were the cops who would zing out from behind big roadside billboards and nail Billy Bob before he could flip some slow-driving criminal onto his backside.

And will someone tell me why there are more cameras within two city blocks of the Salvation Army than there are in all of the rest of southeast Cedar Rapids? Is it because the poor people have more money than the rich people? But then, of course, “it's not about the money,” is it, Dave?

Herbert Maynard

Cedar Rapids