Dear Editor:
Re: DNV Debates Traffic vs. Affordability on Parkway
On Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. I was inching my way along Arborlynn Drive trying to get to Mountain Highway so I could then get to the shops at Lonsdale Quay. My lack of progress gave me lots of time to think. I thought first of an alternate route and realized I could be doing the same thing on Kirkstone Road trying to get onto Lynn Valley Road.
I next thought about the article I had read in the North Shore News on April 6. The article told about the virtual moratorium on development in the Seymour area.
This led to my thinking that if there is to be no development in the Seymour area, in order to make living in the District of North Vancouver affordable we must then develop other areas. It seems that several of the councillors live east of the Seymour River and one of those councillors has a wife who complains about the traffic congestion so it makes sense that it wouldn’t be prudent to develop there.
I then thought of the future in my community and realized that we have not begun to see the reality of the rapid development in the Lynn Valley area. Wait until the developments at Seylynn and the Lynn Valley Centre are completed. It would appear that what we need is a few councillors who live in Lynn Valley, one of whom has a wife who is not happy with the traffic congestion. We might even get our own on ramp at the highway!
By the way, my next thought is: when’s the next election?
Bob Rasmus
North Vancouver
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