Dear Editor:
For decades the public in West Vancouver has been hearing the mantra "we have to revitalize Ambleside." Yet the District of West Vancouver keeps throwing a monkey wrench in any progress by getting rid of parking and putting in so called "calming devices." Those being installed on 17th Street are a case in point. I believe they are also to be installed along Marine Drive to 13th Street.
How is this progress? We have lost the ability to make a right hand turn on a red light onto Marine Drive when going north on 17th Street and the bus will now block the flow of traffic on Marine when it stops to pick up passengers. All this does is add to the frustration of drivers, resulting in them choosing not to bother shopping in Ambleside.
We are not going to get the residents of West Vancouver who live north of Fulton Avenue to walk to Ambleside to shop. It does not make sense to do that. Who is going to carry their purchases back home up the hill?
It is about time the district faced the fact - people are not going to stop driving their cars and take to their feet to shop in Ambleside. So why not accommodate them by increasing parking without impediments to the traffic flow and really revitalize Ambleside?
Anne Laird
West Vancouver
