By Geoff Smith (@GeoffSmithLNN on Twitter)

Lower speed limits, more parking meter time in Janzen platform

Sep 25, 2017 | 9:16 AM

LETHBRIDGE – He’s run for council before. But Robert Janzen says the mayor’s office would give him more clout.

“One of my supervisors… he said you’ve got more pull as a mayor,” Janzen said in an interview with Lethbridge News Now,” so I said, I’m going to try this.” A Lethbridge resident since 1962, Janzen’s background is in private security and janitorial work.

Janzen has a number of individual issues he would tackle if elected, drawing on the different communities and government’s he’s lived in and under. One of them is mayor and council salaries.

“I myself would take a wage cut. I would sign a form to take either a five per cent or a ten per cent wage cut,” he said, citing complaints about high taxes.

He also resolved to lower the residential speed limit from 50 to 45 km/h, with a corresponding drop on Whoop-Up Drive, to reduce litter from cigarette butts by placing more ashtrays in parks, and giving drivers more time to park at meters or lower the price.

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He also favours communal recycling bins rather than individual rollout containers.

“They should have a bin every couple of blocks. Because the (rollout) bins cause a hazard. The wind blows them over, or people forget to take them in.”

Janzen, Martin Heavy Head, and incumbent Chris Spearman are the three candidates for mayor of Lethbridge. Voters go to the polls Oct. 16.