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Updated: September 22, 2009 2:18 PM
Re: “Bear Creek Park road a go: Straw poll.”
The 84 Avenue extension through Bear Creek Park is an ultimately futile attempt to alleviate congestion. Thanks to one of Canada’s fastest-growing populations, the new road will be filled with traffic in no time.
And we’ll be right back where we are now – except with a road cutting through one of Surrey’s most prestigious parks.
So while our engineers press us to spend $12 million on a one-kilometre road extension through one of the city’s prime parks, and we pray that in doing so the traffic will dissipate, we must think rationally and with a foresight that has eluded us for far too long.
It’s time to re-engineer our transportation network and provide truly viable alternatives that get us out of our cars. It is the only way we can maintain our economic well-being, reduce congestion and improve our quality of life.
Now is the time to turn the page and open a new chapter in the mobility and livability of Surrey. It is the only way we can prevent Bear Creek Park, and other natural gems in our city, from suffering what history will deem to be purposeless destruction.
Paul Hillsdon
Surrey
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