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Tsawwassen's 56th Street is too busy to handle any more traffic

Editor: I wish those in majority who are opposed to any commercial development of the Southlands had the finances to counter the brochure from Century Group that arrived with the Optimist with their views.

Editor:

I wish those in majority who are opposed to any commercial development of the Southlands had the finances to counter the brochure from Century Group that arrived with the Optimist with their views.

The artist rendition of those idyllic, almost pastoral scenes of tree-lined paths with not a car in sight was pathetically comical.

Convenience store or not, any proposed development of the Southlands will, of necessity, be a vehicle dependent neighbourhood. Think of all those places one must visit that will require a car - doctor, dentist, supermarket, liquor store, pharmacy, physiotherapist, garage, restaurants, etc.

Tsawwassen today has reached the saturation point in the number of vehicles that 56th Street can handle. I suggest Delta council members make a point to drive down 56th Street mid-afternoon and see for themselves the bottlenecks approaching 12th Avenue that are existing now.

Add more cars from the Tsawwassen Springs development and then even more if the Southlands is developed. This is impossible to even imagine.

The proposed TFN development is an unknown but it most certainly will not improve the traffic situation.

All the pretty brochures we are smothered with cannot change the fact we are in trouble.

There is one truth that surfaced in Century Group's brochure: In the past we were told the Southlands was too wet to grow rice and too dry to grow cactus but now they have agreed - the land is profitably farmable.

Do the right thing as requested by the majority of Tsawwassen residents: keep this land agricultural.

R. Smith