Editor:
Re: New SFPR unlikely to improve the experience for commuters, Community Comment, May 31
I share the same puzzlement as Steve Graham with regard to the Highway 17-South Fraser Perimeter Road junction. Compared with the grossly over engineered interchange(s) of the SFPR at Highway 99, the Highway 17 interchange is cheap and poorly designed.
I also agree the one-lane overpass for those wishing to continue along Highway 17 is a fiasco waiting to happen.
The SFPR, despite the hype and hoopla, is a grossly over engineered highway designed to give truckers a major highway, with the cost borne by the taxpayers; give business to the road builders, paid by the taxpayer; and destroy scarce and valuable farmland, which may help get land out of the ALR.
For those wishing to go to Vancouver (as the vast majority want to), the SFPR will increase journey times by taking motorists further away from the line-up for the George Massey Tunnel.
Malcolm Johnston
