(UNEDITED)The other day after my son-in-law had surgery, my daughter was bringing him home from the hospital. As she most always does, she turned onto a small roadway by a prominent credit union (of which they bank) to avoid the traffic. Her husband was in pain from the surgery and she needed to get him home. He took ten minutes of laughing in his car and then came back. NO signs have ever been posted saying: No thru traffic, No Clearfield ordinance, No nothing. The policeman just told her it was a city ordinance. So the City of Clearfield gives out tickets unbeknownst to the driver that this is the ordinance and we should all know it? What happened to signs alerting residents of this? Many would have taken a different route had they known. But, of course, that would defeat the purpose of the City of Clearfield, wouldn't it? Keep everyone in the dark, but give out traffic tickets anyway.
The short roadway is paved giving the impression of a small street to several businesses, including the bank, yet the policeman boasted at a convenience store that he'd given out 47 tickets the day before on this short stretch of road, each costing these "law breakers" $90 per ticket.
Antelope Drive has been bottled necked toward a stop light, yet no construction vehicles or machinery are there and haven't been there since the orange barrels were placed. This was done weeks ago and still nothing going on, but traffic is being backed up for blocks.
How desperate can the City of Clearfield be to suddenly post a policeman to give tickets to these terrible "law breakers." Is the Mayor or perhaps the Judge up for raise and they needed the extra monies collected to accommodate their pay raises? Or is it corruption in its purest form? This is very curious indeed and one that needs investigation.
Cynthia Gamble
Syracuse
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