Transportation Minister Todd Stone fined for speeding, says ‘This isn’t acceptable’
NEWS — Flying Phil Gaglardi isn’t the only highways minister to have collected speeding tickets. Current Transportation Minister Todd Stone told a Vancouver newspaper today he was recently fined $196 after being pulled over on the Patricia Bay Highway.
Todd Stone.
The Vancouver Province says Stone, the MLA for Kamloops-South Thompson, was en route to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal three weeks ago, travelling 29 km/h over the 80-km/h speed limit. His wife and three children were with him at the time.
“I paid the ticket and obviously, this isn’t acceptable and I’ve got to set a better example for British Columbians,” Stone told the paper. “I’ve taken it to heart, and I’m going to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
He said he immediately notified Premier Christy Clark and caucus of the speeding ticket. The premier was “disappointed,” he said.
Stone’s licence was suspended for a time in 2000 because he accumulated five speeding tickets in a year. He said he’s only been ticketed twice since then.
Read the Vancouver Province story here.
Gaglardi also represented Kamloops, receiving several speeding tickets during the 1950s and 1960s. He liked to say he was “testing the curves” of the highways he’d built.
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Stevan Puharich has quite a sense of humour.Todd Stone is a write off in my book and let the two of them navigate the corners north of Hefley at 100 k,s at night against a convoy of tractor/trailers ,all with varying types of new style heaslights,some with spots too boot with the wife and kids.
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Flying Phil he is not. At least Galardi told it like it was, and looked after his constituents. Stone, not so much.
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He said Crusty was disappointed. Was that because he did not top her stunt of running red lights with her kid, and a reporter in the car ?
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How about we focus on job performance? If we want to raise the quality of people who go into politics, we have to remember that they are, after all, human. Time to move on.
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5 speeding tickets in 2000 and now he boasts about having only 2 since then. Many people live their lives without any speeding tickets. I’m not sure this is the person who should be at the helm of the Transportation portfolio. Also makes the recent speed limit changes a little self serving……however still not fast enough for him I guess
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“Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” Sure this story is ironic and speed can kill, but find me someone who hasn’t sped before. The only reason this is news is because of his position in the government. How many other people province wide sped yesterday and did/ did not get caught?
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Yes, my first thought was along these lines. And the focus on getting people out of his way in the fast lane. Sometimes driving behaviour gives insight into personality. For example I have a lovely calm, organized, thoughtful, conscientious friend who doesn’t speed and has never had a ticket. He would be a great person to make balanced level headed decisions if he were in government.
In my younger years I had two, but I was much more impulsive and self centered then. Now I am much more aware of the consequences of speeding and slow down to protect myself and those around me. One ticket could have been an innocent error, but his historical pattern of behaviour is very interesting.
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Clearly the speed limits aren’t high enough yet.
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