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Stick with the George Massey Tunnel

Editor: I say forget any current plans and stick with the tunnel. The only reason the tunnel is a nightmare is due to insufficient traffic management. Restrict vehicles with less than four occupants to not travel during rush hour.

Editor:

I say forget any current plans and stick with the tunnel.

The only reason the tunnel is a nightmare is due to insufficient traffic management.

Restrict vehicles with less than four occupants to not travel during rush hour. That will cause pooling of passengers and drivers and reduce traffic to a trickle.

My brother Jack and I had the great pleasure to move to Boundary Bay and work on the George Massey Tunnel in 1955.

While on one graveyard shift I noticed a boil of water spurting up two feet on the fifth or base level of the tunnel approach where the contractor poured four to six feet of concrete of the road base the following day. I scurried up to the superintendents'trailer and he dispatched a cat operator to push two to three feet of sand to keep the water boil down.

It is not comforting to me to think of building a $4.5 billion bridge on a sand base. I think I will shake in my boots if I have to cross it and it's a long way down if an earthquake hits.

I side with Doug Massey in his proposal that global tunnel experts be consulted as they can share their expert knowledge that is most important at this time to allow the public access to vital information required and to enable those in charge to make their decisions -a decision based on facts and not emotional feelings.

There is nothing wrong with the George Massey Tunnel that a little renovation and better lighting will not fix to allow traffic through for many years to come.

Abe Froese