Don’t object to plan but rationale used
Published: July 23, 2008 2:00 PMUpdated: July 23, 2008 2:31 PM
While few, including TransLink, will disagree that MLA Adrian Dix’s “10-Point Plan” calls for measures that will improve the public’s perception of safety on the SkyTrain system, it is unfortunate that his letter in your July 19 edition repeats the error that gave rise to our objections last weekend.
Mr. Dix writes that his initiative “originated with concerns over a series of attacks against women at the 29th Avenue and Nanaimo SkyTrain stations in my constituency.”
With respect, while one incident took place at the entrance of the Nanaimo station, none of the series of attacks in the 29th Avenue area occurred “at” the 29th Avenue SkyTrain station itself, but in the streets in the surrounding neighbourhood.
This is at the heart of our objection, not to the plan, but the campaign used to support it.
Ken Hardie
TransLink
