Letter: Vegas traffic can be helped with citations

Saturday, April 1, 2006 | 7:19 a.m.

I have driven all over the United States, and the driving conditions in the Las Vegas Valley are absolutely the worst I have ever encountered.

If you are driving 65 mph in the fast lane, you are having everyone else passing you on the right and cutting you off with the Nevada one-finger salute.

So I am making you an offer you can't refuse. I will buy all the uniforms, pay all the insurance, buy the police cars and pay all the expenses at absolutely no cost to local governments. All I want are exclusive rights to all traffic tickets in the Las Vegas Valley.

I will take one-third for my share and give the rest to the city. I also promise that within two years I will have more than 500 patrol cars on the highways at absolutely no cost to the city.

While the above offer is made in jest, why can't the city or county plan the same strategy and/or hire an independent company to patrol our streets under the same plan? Or let's just hire officers to patrol and control traffic, with the issue of high-priced tickets.

It shouldn't take a rocket scientist to be able to write speeding and other driving tickets.

In closing, the best thing about Las Vegas is our mayor. He should be the top-paid politician or public official. He is a terrific asset for us and we better keep him at all cost.

Earl H. Cook, Las Vegas