Consider larger traffic plan
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Updated: September 29, 2009 12:47 PM
I have lived on 88 Avenue since 1981 and have seen many changes to the park across the street – and all have affected the wildlife adversely.
When I moved here, 140 Street was farmland and 88 Avenue from 140 Street east was farmland. My husband and I loved our location at 88th and King George because of its country-like atmosphere.
The day I moved in a ring-tailed pheasant strolled up the creek bed beside our house. Since then, we have seen 88 Avenue widened in 1989 to four lanes, and a turn lane beside our house that has broken our foundation and changed our bucolic setting into major urban sprawl. We had no neighbourhood discussion and no say in the change, and have seen pheasants, rabbits, swallows, and now eagles disappear as traffic thunders down 88 Avenue. No spur road at 84 Avenue will correct this. Only a well thought-out traffic plan which includes Ring Road and 96 Avenue will ever give this area back what it has lost.
Jean Galbraith, Surrey
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