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Hey Sask Highways, you’ve got my attention! Now I’d like yours. On Jan. 25 at 3 p.m., I was driving on Hwy 7 from Saskatoon to my home near Vanscoy. Just past the intersection with Hwy 60 were construction signs, with a 60 kph speed limit and fines tripled.

I get it. I know the importance of this. As I said, you have my attention. I obeyed the rules, as did a semi trailer and other vehicles behind me. Only one guy in a half-ton blew by us. But what? In the next 10 km to my place, there were no people, no vehicles, no robots or aliens working on this road.

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I have seen this several times on several roads. I hear complaints about it from others. You keep doing this to us, and you are going to defeat the purpose of what should be a life-saving new law.

And please don’t tell me “well, the contractor was going to be there a bit later.” You can control this, Sask Highways. Even if you have hardly any staff left, you can demand it of your private contractors. We deserve better.

Calvin Young

Vanscoy

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