Dear Editor:
For many years my wife and I have been commuting eastbound in the morning down East Keith Road to Mountain Highway and on to the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing. In that time the lights at Fern Street rarely caused any backup onto the old Keith Road bridge because the road had two lanes southbound. Since the very recent traffic pattern change with Keith Road routed north of the new Seylynn development, the congestion has increased dramatically due to traffic being limited to a single lane. Now the traffic backs up from the lights at the new intersection several hundred metres back up Keith Road to the intersection of Mountain Highway and Keith Road. I know that a new Keith Road bridge replacement is planned but the traffic pattern should not have been changed until the new bridge is built. So-called infrastructure improvements ought to live up to their billing. This one does not.
David Jones
North Vancouver
