Editor:
Why bike lanes when there are no bikes?
I have just returned from a second so-called “public consultation” meeting with City of Delta staff about road improvements on 8A Avenue in Tsawwassen. Again, the residents are told what the plan is and do not have the opportunity to speak directly with the members of the planning commission who control the process or the political representatives responsible.
As citizens, we expect taxpayers’ money is spent wisely and well by our politicians.
I have lived on this tree-lined street for over 30 years.
Our street, from English Bluff Road to 56th Street, has become quite busy with speeding cars, heavy transport trucks and school buses that shake the house as they rumble along and chew up the potholes.
Although the vehicular width of the road will remain the same, adding bicycle lanes on both sides of the street increases the visual appearance of a wider roadway and the tendency to speed.
This planned construction of bike lanes on both sides of 8A Avenue referred to now as a collector road raises a question: Are all collector roads equal? In this situation, there are almost no cyclists ever observed on 8A Avenue.
The idea of bicycle lanes being connected to collector roads is being applied in a one shoe fits all manner without it being representative of reality or facts.
Isabelle Harris
