Dear Editor:
Ralph Carder’s recent letter Traffic Fix Not Towers Needed Now (June 14 Mailbox) was absolutely on the nose.
Our local North Shore authorities seem to be totally beholden to densification while our traffic problems get worse.
There seems to be absolutely no word about whether traffic studies are being done, by whom – municipal, regional, provincial or federal authorities – if they are being done, and when we might hear a conclusion about the extent of the growing road congestion and where it might be in the next five or 10 years. In a recent meeting of District of West Vancouver council, a speaker’s statement of a two per cent decline of traffic on the Lions Gate bridge was met with a roar of disbelief from the audience followed by a warning from the mayor.
There was no word of the increase on the Second Narrows, which leaves the Upper Levels packed daily going eastwards from 2 p.m. There is no word on how west-east and east-west traffic problems are being dealt with. There just seems to be a complete silence.
Patrick Hill
West Vancouver
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