Dear Editor:
The Rolls-Royce of sidewalks is not needed on Moody Avenue.
I have lived in the city for more than 30 years and walk twice a day. It amazes me how something that has worked for more than 100 years not just here, but all over the country - the standard four foot sidewalk - all of sudden is no good. Think how many extra feet of basic sidewalk could be installed for the projected $500,000 if we just used the basic sidewalk as opposed to the Rolls-Royce model.
City officials go to conferences at great expense to the taxpayer and come back with all these expensive pet projects.
You just have to look at the newfangled catch basin at 13th and Moody. It took quite some time to rip out the old one which was about two years old and then replace it with the "new and improved system" only to have the leaves block it up like the standard model.
Please let's try to work with the people who these extra-wide sidewalks are going to impact as it is the beleaguered taxpayer you are suppose to be working for.
Duncan Dickinson
North Vancouver
