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Trail streets are not spittoons
Trail lacks a prominently enforced anti-spitting bylaw as Vancouver and Calgary fine public expectoration, with one observer citing four spits in a block.
What began as a leisurely Friday morning walk to Ferraro Foods quickly turned into an exercise in self-control and prompted a thought I find myself having with increasing frequency: perhaps it’s time to bring back fines for spitting on our streets. Those of us with weaker constitutions still gag at the sight of someone hocking a glob of phlegm onto the sidewalk, a disgusting habit that was once properly discouraged with fines. When I saw a man s…