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Oct. 17/09 New video posted. This video is from Arizona and deals with ACS and amber times. Many of the same issues we are dealing with here in Winnipeg.
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WiseUpWinnipeg.com and concerned citizens Shut Down Two Blatant Construction Zone Cash Grab Locations!
On October 10, 2009 we held our information rally at St. Mary's and Bishop Grandin. It was well received and many signs were given out. We have more and will make others as needed.
If you were not able to pick one up on Saturday, then fill out the contact form on the About Us page of this web site and we will arrange to get one to you.
On the way home I went through the construction zone and saw what was to date the most blatant example of a Pure Cash Grab. I took some video and then shut down the revenue with the placement of some signs. Watch this video below to see exactly what I mean. Safety? Yeh right!
See what I mean!
The following two mornings, as Todd went out to check on the construction zones, he found people that had been to our rally, out in the chilly weather with their signs up and keeping the revenue where it belongs.....in your pocket and Your Local Economy. Not in the hands of a foreign owned company that siphons it out of here leaving the City and Province with the scraps!
I want to personally send kudos out to those who showed up to the construction zones on both days. One fellow told Todd that at Inkster the motorists were honking and giving him the thumbs up. They also told him what a great job he was doing and had 4 coffees dropped off to him. Traffic was slowed to a snails pace and angry motorists blasted the mobile radar operator with comments about how they felt about hum setting up approximately 100 meters from the end of the Construction Zone. After an hour and a half the van gave up and left!
At McGillivary Two women who were passing by stopped and spent the next 4 HOURS helping to display the signs. See the photo below. Click on it for a larger image.
Once again. Great Job Guys! Larry Stefanuik
wiseupwinnipeg.com
Wise Up Winnipeg released a video today summarizing the first week of it's campaign. In brief this video includes the following topics;
- Details of Information Rally on October 10th
- Video and pictures exposing mobile radar once again in unmanned construction zones on the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and how members with signs shut down the Cash Grab.
- Member of Wise Up Winnipeg Confronted by three police cruisers and threatened with charge of obstruction of justice for parking down the street from a mobile photo radar van. Press release issued condemning this action!
- Discovery of a stretch of road where human enforcement is ticketing in one direction and photo van in the other direction. One side is safe, the other is not.
- Signs posted in Inskter construction zone after site manager gives permission. Suspect ACS of removing them.
- ACS operators now taking pictures of members placing signs. Also verbally abusive and giving the finger to Todd.
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October 21/09
Anti-photo radar group has run-in with police
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
A group dedicated to warning motorists of photo radar locations in Winnipeg had a run-in with police Tuesday morning.
Larry Stefaniuk of WiseUpWinnipeg.com said a member of his group, James Cotton, had set up a sign on Ness Avenue, informing drivers of a radar trap in a nearby school zone. Shortly afterwards, police officers approached and warned him he could be charged with obstruction of justice.
Cotton said he parked his car with the warning sign half a block behind a Winnipeg Police mobile radar truck.
He said three cruisers pulled up and officers accused him of obstructing justice. They threatened to charge him if he did it again.
"I wasn't obstructing justice," Cotton told CBC News.
"If I was in front of the van or preventing the unit from giving tickets that would be a different story, but there was no way I was preventing them from giving tickets. I was just warning people to slow down," Cotton said.
Stefaniuk said the obstruction threat doesn't make sense.
"From what I can understand, that would only come into play if somebody was standing in front of the radar unit, preventing it from actually performing its duties or say, if an officer was set up doing radar and somebody was acting in a manner that would prevent them from taking radar readings or laser readings," he said.
Stefaniuk can't figure out why police reacted that way when they maintain they want people to know where the radar locations are so drivers will slow down.
No obstruction: lawyer
Winnipeg criminal defence lawyer Jay Prober said he doubted if an obstruction of justice charge would stand up in court given that Cotton was trying to stop people from breaking the law.
"They're actually preventing — well I don't know if its a crime, but it's an offence under [Manitoba's] Highway Traffic Act, so there they are trying to prevent people from speeding," Prober said.
A Winnipeg police spokesperson said if Cotton filed a complaint against the officers they would investigate it.
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October 13, 2009
The following is a copy of a letter to the editor of both the Winnipeg Sun and Free Press, written by Todd Dube.
Subject: missing persons report
On behalf of Winnipeggers, I'd like to file a Missing Persons Report. Normally that would be filed with the Winnipeg Police Service however that party, as it turns out, has a vested interest in a prolonged disappearance. Missing is the entire construction crew who set up dozens of barricades southbound Kenaston approaching McGillvary. That was 4 weeks ago and they haven't been seen since. Many thanks to the private company that is conducting an around the clock investigation by gathering photo evidence of cars/suspects that pass through this faux-construction zone.
At the very least, the public would expect that our Mayor would provide a shovel and some work-gloves to it's only contractor at this site - the photo-radar vehicle that is removing the grocery money from the pockets of the good people/drivers passing safely through this void area. The same situation exists northbound Rte #90 near Inkster. We haven't seen those workers in weeks either. That doesn't stop a photo-radar vehicle from attending at 8am on Thanksgiving weekend mornings and setting up at the very end of that faux-construction zone. One would think that "dangerous" drivers would be targeted entering this "dangerous" area as opposed to exiting it.
There are zero "safety" aspects in this private ticketing company's program or deployment tactics and the City should immediately address the facts of same. Video evidence of this scheme can be found at the website below. Thanks to the dozen sign-holders that turned out on Thanksgiving morning - many thousands of dollars will remain where it belongs - in our pockets, not there's. The Province, the City and it's police service continue to endorse this fund raising scheme. Fellow Winnipeggers - are you okay with that?
Todd Dube
WiseUpWinnipeg.com
795-5120
