Dear Editor: I read with much interest Brent Richter's Aug. 21 story regarding the Hwy. 1 redesign plans for the Keith Road/Fern Street areas. Good news, and I hope the rebuild happens sooner rather than later.
I hope too that the redesign will include a badly needed change to the existing system of entry to Hwy. 1 from Mount Seymour Parkway for westbound traffic. Currently, as you pass by the front of the Holiday Inn, you have to merge with the highway traffic prior to crossing the four-lane bridge over Lynn Creek. This is OK if you want to go onto the highway. But if all you want to do is go up to Lynn Valley, as many vehicles do, wouldn't it be better if you didn't have to enter onto the highway at all and instead had a dedicated Lynn Valley ramp with its own single lane bridge off to the right of the highway bridge? This would cut down considerably on the number of vehicles having to enter onto the highway.
It seems to me that a single lane concrete span over the Lynn Creek at this point shouldn't be too horrendously expensive and might be money well spent in that the chances of a serious collision at the merge site are greatly reduced.
Murdo MacIver
North Vancouver
