Editor:
Re: A Tale of Two Cities, Sept. 21
The traffic jams through the George Massey Tunnel are brutal at rush hour. Beginning next year, the Liberal provincial government will construct a tolled bridge that will have 2.5 times as many lanes as the tunnel does now.
As a suburb of Vancouver, the majority of adult Ladnerites commute there every day. By continuing to build the tolled bridge instead of focusing on improving public transit and carpooling awareness, Delta's support of this project makes it so that those of lower income in Delta are being marginalized.
Furthermore, commuters' travel patterns will be forced to change with the removal of the tunnel as an alternative free route. When the Port Mann Bridge was built, people chose to use costless crossings. It is therefore likely the free Alex Fraser Bridge will be inundated with a large increase in traffic.
While I understand the plans for the bridge will go ahead no matter what, I would much prefer to see the tunnel continue operation as an HOV/transit-only route for those of us who are required to travel to Vancouver every day. Otherwise, it's just not worth it to continue to live in Ladner.
Sunita Lucertini
