Opinion

Editor: Last Wednesday my nine-year-old son was riding his bike home from school when he was struck by a car while crossing in the crosswalk at 44th Avenue and Arthur Drive. The car turned into the crosswalk between my son and another child.

The inability to take no for an answer can be a good thing, particularly if you're in sales, but I'm not so sure it's doing the provincial Conservatives much good these days. The upstart party, which surged into relevance on B.C.

Thank goodness we have a mayor who is in touch with reality! At the last Mayors' Council on Transportation, which is TransLink's governing authority, Delta Mayor Lois Jackson voted against a proposal to have even a temporary increase in property taxe

What's in a name? Thousands of commuters on highways 10 and 17 pass by Paterson Park daily, noting only open space and an abandoned track.

Editor: Re: MLA upset Roberts Bank left out, Sept. 28 Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington's quoted remarks in this story wrongly implied the federal government actively refused to include Roberts Bank in the Ramsar designation of Fraser River wetlands.

Something tells me we're going to become much more familiar with the term road pricing in the months and years ahead.

Editor: Sean Hodgins has a family, his health and enough financial success already to keep himself and his family more than comfortable for the rest of his life and beyond.

Editor: What would it take for a community to succeed in stopping the development of one of its last expanses of farmland? Certainly, if rational argument and attendance at meetings were the answer, the revised Southlands plan would be dead.

Editor: Ross Ens and Vicki Huntington are both concerned about the black stuff that ends up on cars, boats, patios, windowsills and in our lungs. My wife and I have a boat in Point Roberts and own a home in Tsawwassen.

Editor: The black soot from the trains and the coal port is definitely coal residue. I have enough on my metal roof and white vehicles to donate a sample to any analytical lab for testing.