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Toll-cameras and Clifford Olson
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July 14, 2006
Smile, you’re on a candid toll-paying camera…Should vehicles traveling over the Lower Mainland’s major highway and bridges be tolled? Gordon Price, director of SFU Vancouver’s city program, says it’s a common-sense proposal that helps pay for the region’s ever-expanding network of bridges and roads. On the other hand, he notes, the idea is a political hot potato: “It dashes vehicle owners’ predominant view that their next trip should be free because they’ve bought the car and covered all the hidden costs, such as insurance.” Price can elaborate on the hard truth that the next trip will never be free and talk about Burnaby-produced technology that makes enforcing tolls as easy as having a camera record license plate numbers to make sure car owners pay up.
• Gordon Price, 604.291.5081, price@sfu.ca
Hell unleashed?...Clifford Olson, who brutally murdered 11 children in the early 1980s and then was paid to reveal where he had buried the bodies, goes before a parole board next week. SFU criminologists Neil Boyd and Ray Corrado—who describes Olson as “a full-scale psychopath”—can speak to varying aspects of a case that traumatized a generation of Lower Mainland children and their parents.
• Neil Boyd H: 604-947-9569; O: 604-291-3324; neil_boyd@sfu.ca
• Ray Corrado H: 604-742-1945; O: 604-291-3629; raymond_corrado@sfu.ca