Editor:
Such a to-do about the tunnel. I'm not going to get too excited about what might be ahead one way or the other. Where is the money to build any of the possible projects?
When I first read about it, I didn't know whether to laugh or to cry: up until a few months ago, when the provincial election hove into view, the stated Liberal opinion was that nothing needed to be done about the tunnel until 2040. Now, suddenly it will be replaced, pronto. This is at the same time as at least four renovated hospitals have also been promised to various places in B.C.
Does anyone actually believe any of this stuff? When I cast my mind back to recent pre-election promises, I can only shake my head: those high voltage cables that were going to be buried? The HST that was not going to be even remotely considered?
What did happen was that out of the blue, the Canada Line was built, again with the promise that no businesses along the Cambie corridor would suffer as a consequence. Do we know how many went under as a result of changed plans?
This, just after the No. 3 Road in Richmond had undergone massive construction to create a transit corridor, which was then torn up as soon as it was completed, to make way for that train. Even with only two hands, this government doesn't know what either one is doing, it seems.
It would seem the Liberals would like nothing better than to oust our pesky (to them) and effective (to us) independent MLA. That is what all this hullabaloo about the tunnel is all about.
They excoriate the NDP for wanting to paint the inside of the tunnel white; in all the years the present government has had, it hasn't even come up with a creative idea like that.
I'd love that to happen: I wear prescription sunglasses and have the choice between going through the tunnel without being able to see where I'm going or fumbling around for my other glasses while contending with multiple lanes of traffic as well as drivers who write their own rules of the road and are less predictable than the average three-year-old.
Ellen Pye
